FOX-HUNTING RECOLLECTIONS i6i 



kennels at Market Drayton, during the season of 

 1822. At a meeting presided over by Mr. F. 

 Holyoake, held on the 26th February 1823 ^.t 

 the Lion Inn, Wolverhampton, a committee was 

 appointed to raise a subscription of £1000, which 

 the meeting considered would be sufficient for 

 hunting the country two days a week from 

 kennels in any central position, and to discover 

 '' a proper person to take the management/' 

 Only a few days later the committee found such 

 a person in Sir Bellingham Graham, who in a 

 memorandum dated ist March, agreed to hunt 

 the country three days a week for the subscrip- 

 tion named. 



He accordingly rented Compton House, near 

 Kinver, where kennels were built ; he used also 

 Mr. Mytton's old kennels at Ivetsey Bank for 

 temporary accommodation when the meets were 

 on that side. He was not, however, satisfied 

 with the sport he showed during the winter 

 1823-4, fo^ ^^ 5^h February it was intimated 

 at a meeting at the Lion Hotel that, having 

 given the country a fair trial. Sir Bellingham 

 had come to the opinion that it would not afford 

 foxes for three days a week with good sport, 

 and that he proposed accepting an invitation he 

 had received from Shrewsbury with the promise 



of a subscription, to hunt part of the Shropshire 

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