Fox-hunting Past and Present 



present Dukes of Beaufort, Lords Fitzhardinge and 



Leconfield in the South. Mr. Crozier was M.F.H. 



of the Blencathra sixty-four years ; Mr. J. Lawrence 



of the Llangibby from 1856-97. Other family 



packs omitted above are the Belvoir, Brocklesby, 



and Wynnstay. 



Then come the veteran names of Lowther, 



associated with Quorn and Cottesmore since 1788 ; 



further details I cannot go into here ; Anstruther- 



Thomson, M.F.H. in the Shires and of Fife ; 



John Warde, Assheton Smith, and Osbaldeston, 



who hunted more or less all their lives. The 



Persses of Galway, the Watsons of Carlow and 



Meath, the Spencers of Althorp. Mr. Garth reigned 



fifty years as an M.F.H. Many huntsmen have 



handed down the post from father to son, viz. the 



Leedhams with the Meynell, and Smiths with the 



Brocklesby. Then the Goodalls, Freemans, and 



Hills are families of hunt servants. J. Baily was 



huntsman of the Essex, and Bowman of the UUs- 



water many years ; C. Brackley to the Garth 



thirty-two years. Champion was huntsman to 



Marquis Zetland thirty-four years. S. Morgan 



first whip to Lord Galway since 1877 ; and J. 



Shepherd, born at the Fife kennels in 1843, never 



left the country. T. Smith gives up the Bramham 



Moor this year, and C. Travers the Cotswold. Both 



have completed over thirty odd years as hunt 



servants, and there are many other such examples. 



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