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Hill. Sir Rowland Hill hunted the North of Shropshire 

 from 1834 to 1838, and several other masters of hounds 

 whose names will be introduced in regular order. In 

 fact, the only one who has hunted this country not 

 being a county man was Sir Bellingham Graham; and 

 it is somewhat singular that in only one instance has 

 the Quorn country ever been hunted, except by one 

 gentleman, Mr. Green, who was a county man. It 

 appears almost unnecessary to remark that the late 

 Mr. Corbet of Sundome, renowned as the most 

 celebrated master of fox-hounds ever known in 

 Warwickshire, was a Salopian. 



Without including those reckless riders who by their 

 jealousy are constantly pressing upon hounds and 

 calling forth bursts of just anathemas from masters, 

 there are many of first-rate celebrity in this accom- 

 plishment — and as an accomplishment it must be fairly 

 recognised when tempered with sportsman-like dis- 

 cretion — who claim Shropshire as the county of their 

 birth. Mr. John Lyster, of Rowton Castle, ranks as 

 one of the very best performers over a country of this 

 or any other age. Without over-riding hounds he is 

 always with them, let the pace or the difficulties be 

 what they may. The late Mr. Lloyd, of Aston, was 

 equally good ; and his son, I am informed, inherits the 

 same properties. The late Colonel Gatacre, of Gatacre 

 Hall, on the Bridge-north side, the respected colonel of 

 the militia during many years, was a fine horseman, an 

 excellent sportsman, and a most estimable, worthy 

 specimen of the English country gentleman. He lived 

 to attain the good old age of eighty-one, and was taken 

 from his family, his friends, and his country in 1849, an 

 event which occasioned the most unfeigned regret. 



The list of distinguished sportsmen, natives of Shrop- 

 shire, has yet to be increased with the names of the late 

 Mr. George Aston, formerly of Newton, but since of 

 Seisdon, in the county of Stafford; also his two 

 brothers, the late Mr. Thomas Aston Pudsey, and his 

 successor, Mr. John Aston Pudsey. No three so nearly 



