Fox-himting Past and Present 



After Mr. Hodgson came Mr. Greene of Rolleston, 

 a fine sportsman, who figures in the great 

 ^' Quarterly " run as skimming over the Whissen- 

 dine on his bay mare, *^ like a swallow on a 

 summer's evening." In 1847 Sir Richard Sutton 

 succeeded him ; he had won a great name in 

 the Burton and Cottesmore countries. In 1857 

 the latter took the Donnington country back, 

 and then finding the whole rather too large to 

 be properly hunted by one pack, he handed a 

 part of it over to his son, Mr. Richard Sutton, 

 building him kennels at Skeffington. 



No man ever showed better sport in Leicester- 

 shire than Sir Richard, and when he died at 

 the beginning of the season of 1855, it was a 

 bad day for the Quorn. Young Sir Richard and 

 Captain Frank Sutton finished the season, and 

 then Lord Stamford came to the front, with a pack 

 composed largely of old hounds and a good draft 

 from Mr. Anstruther-Thomson's kennels, whose 

 memoirs we have lately read. In this mastership 

 Mr. Tailby took a portion of the Quorn country 

 together with part of the Cottesmore, and showed 

 rare sport up to 1871, when the latter, according 

 to agreement, reverted to its original lords, and 

 Mr. Tailby continued for some seasons longer to 

 content himself with two days a week in the 

 diminished province now governed by Sir Bache 



Cunard. After Lord Stamford, who kept the 



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