The late Rev. C. SHngsby. 



Ill 



a fairly stiff fence it stumbled and unseated Mr. Slingsby, who 

 fell on his head and was killed instantly, his neck being broken. 



Sir Charles Slingsby. 



The deceased gentleman for some years lived in the Hurworth 

 country, as Vicar of Kirby Sigston, and out of respect to his 

 memory the Hurworth did not hunt on the day of his funeral. 

 He was sixty-nine years of age, and for part of his life had 

 ridden, and ridden well, to hounds. The son of the Rev. 

 Thomas Atkinson, Rector of Kirby Sigston, he assumed the 

 name and arms of Slingsby upon inheriting the Slingsby 

 estates on the death of his cousin. The family has ever seemed 

 to have a Nemesis overshadowing it, for if one goes back to the 

 earliest days we find John de Slingsby died from wounds 

 received at Flodden Field. Another member of the family lost 

 his head in support of the Royalist cause in the Cromwellian 

 epoch. A descendant, Thomas Slingsby, was drowned in the 

 River Nidd. Sir Charles Slingsby, an uncle of the late sport- 

 ing parson, lost his life in the terrible ferry-boat disaster on the 

 river Ure, in 1869, which followed a fixture at Stainley House. 



