CHAPTER IX 



SIR BELLINGHAM GRAHAM, BART. 



As the hunting career of my father, Sir BelHngham 

 Graham, took place long before my existence, 

 I must of necessity have occasional recourse to 

 the writers of those days for any record of what 

 happened. It seems that he was an M.F.H. 

 from 1815 to 1826, and between those dates he 

 was Master of the Badsworth, Atherstone, 

 Pytchley, Hambledon, Quorn, Albrighton, and 

 Shropshire Hunts. 



Born in 1789, he was just of age in 1810 when 

 he established a pack of harriers at Norton 

 Conyers, and had for his whipper-in a young man 

 named Kit Atkinson, who had come from the 

 Lord Strathmore of that day, and was destined 

 in the future to become a celebrated hunt servant. 

 These harriers were not confined to Yorkshire 

 entirely, but were often taken into Sussex on 

 a visit to the Sir Godfrey Webster of that time, 

 who was then living at Battle Abbey. In Sussex 

 they not only hunted hares, but on some occasions 

 a stag was turned out for them. 



This went on until the year 1815, when Sir 



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