JO The Rev. John Newton. 



riding, the remainder of the seat and hands which had once rendered him 

 so famous with the Raby, the Bedale, the Hurworth and the Cleveland, 

 were plainly visible." 



In Kirby-in-Cleveland Church are tablets bearing the 

 following inscriptions : 



" In Memory of The Rev. John Farmer Newton, for 52 years curate 

 and vicar of this parish. Born Sept., 1791. Died Nov., 1880. This 

 tablet was erected by parishioners and friends." 



"This tablet is erected to the memory of Elizabeth Newton, Daughter 

 of Wm, Kent, Esq., of Little Bedwin, in the county of Wilts., who died 

 July 19, 1850, aged 64 years, by her afflicted husband, John Farmer 

 Newton, vicar of the parish." 



" The Rev. John Farmer Newton, for 52 years vicar of this parish, 

 who died Nov. 23rd, 1880, in his 90th year. " 



Continuing, the old-time writer tells us of another sport- 

 ing cleric in the neighbouring town of Stokesley — '* The Rev. 

 Charles Cator, rector of Stokesley, whose sister married 

 Osbaldeston. I must not omit Scott-Waring, of Darlington, 

 who had been educated at Eton and Sandhurst, but who turned 

 livery stable keeper, and owned racehorses, having bought 'Sir 

 Bennett ' of Lord Eglington. He was a singular character, 

 and he dressed to it, wearing very tight trousers. He would 

 over-ride hounds, and use the strangest and strongest languages 

 when remonstrated with ; yet, withal, he kept up his reading, 

 and, in his very lowest moments, the gentleman would peep out, 

 showing that what was bred in him never departed entirely. 

 He told curious tales of travels with ' Sir Bennett.'" 



" In those days, hunting men lived a good deal together 

 at the Dinsdale Hotel, a beautiful place near Middleton One 

 Row, which has now become a lunatic asylum, and the stables, 

 formerly full of hunters, are a picture of desolation ; and at the 

 good old hostelry, at Croft Spa, were Lord Falkland and the 



