GEORGE BELL GRIPPER ON " ROMEO " 



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Bred by the Hon. Ralph Nevill, Master of the West Kent 

 fox hounds, from whom Lord Rookwood purchased him, he 

 received a good schooHng in hunt stables, for upon Lord 

 Rookwood, then Sir Henry Selwin Ibbetson, giving up the 

 Essex Hounds, he was purchased by a Master of Harriers 

 in Scotland, and in his hands won a race, a thing he had 

 not succeeded in doing in England, although tried at Harlow, 

 Ipswich, and Chelmsford with Bailey and Sir Claud de 



George Bell Gripper on "Romeo" 



Crespigny up, Mr. Gripper states that he was out and out 

 the best hunter he ever rode, and that he died, as all such 

 horses should die, in the field. 



When sending me a portrait of a favourite hunter, " Paddy," 

 which carried him three seasons, Mr. Seymour Caldwell 

 mentions one of the most extraordinary days he ever had with 

 the Essex Fox hounds. It seems that when Mr. Green was 

 Master (the date December 9, '92, the meet at Rad winter), 

 there had been a week's frost at least, but a slight thaw settintj" 



