Belvoir Hunt. 8i 



completion announcements were made in tlie 

 newspapers that the presentation would take 

 place at Belvoir Castle on the loth of April, 

 with a request that all subscribers who could 

 make it convenient would attend. Shortly 

 before twelve groups of horsemen might be 

 seen approaching the towering heights from all 

 directions, whilst carriages were setting down 

 large arrivals of ladies and gentlemen in hunting 

 costume at the castle porch. On assembling 

 in the guard room the eye ran over nearly all 

 the members and landed gentry of the hunt, 

 besides outsiders who were prompted by 

 kindred feelings ; an immense assembly of 

 farmers, comprising those who hunted to a 

 man, and a considerable proportion of those 

 who didn't, but who expressed their satisfac- 

 tion, not only in having contributed towards 

 the testimonial, but in the preservation of 

 foxes on their lands. Amongst the company 

 were Sir Thomas Whichcote, Sir John Thorold, 

 Sir H. A. H. Cholmeley, Colonel Reeve, Captain 

 Longstaffe, Major Parker, Mr. J. E. Welby, 

 Captain de Burton, Captain Thorold, Messrs. 

 Geo. Norman, V. Drummond, J. Hardy, 

 Mr. and Mrs. B. Tumor, F. Stanley, A. Turnor, 

 C. Wigram, Wm. Manners, Frank Gillard (the 



