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Squire Sutton, of Elton and Faceby.* 

 Another well known Hurworth Nimrod about this time 

 was Squire J. S. Sutton, of Elton and Faceby, who is still in 

 the flesh. He began to hunt with the Hurworth in Danby's 

 era, and for several seasons had as his groom Tom Salmon, 

 who had been with his father as second groom for some years, 

 but who had left Elton to hunt Col. Hildyard's harriers. On 

 the Colonel's death he had a season or so as huntsman to the 

 Hurworth, and then returned to Elton to the young Squire 

 (who had succeeded his father in 185 1) and remained in his 

 service till his death. Peculiarly enough the Hurworth Hounds 

 killed a fox on his grave ere he had been laid under it many 

 weeks. Squire John Staplyton Sutton was born on Nov. 23rd, 

 1832, and married on April 26th, 1855, Sarah Jefferson, the 

 youngest daughter of John Charles Maynard, of Harlsey Hall, 

 He now resides at Faceby, having sold the Elton estate, of 

 which his father — a poet of no mean order — wrote on Oct. 

 17th, 1833: 



Elton ! I love thy quiet shady grove, 

 Speak to my heart, to my remembrance call 

 Days of my childhood — happy halcyon days — 

 When, as a thoughtless and light-hearted boy, 

 I roved among thy daisy-spangled meads ! 

 Thy rough-cast front — thy long and lowly roof. 

 Thy chimneys tall — thy court yard and thy bell 

 (Deep toned and full — the labourer's monitor) 

 Bring to my view the friends of early youth, 

 Alas I now tenants of the green church-yard : 

 —My children when I'm gone shall love thee too, 

 And thou will still be, what thou art — 



Sweet Home. 

 In 1843, we find Squire Sutton hunting with the South 

 Durham as ** a kid on a pony," and in Squire Ord's History of 



*See Life in a Yoykshire Village, by the present author. 



