CHAPTER X. 



CAPTAIN GEORGE CLERK CHEAPE OF WELLFIELD, 

 MR ADAM PATERSON CROSS. 



1887-1895. 



To hunt the country two days a-week, to become 

 resident in the district and take an active interest 

 in the well-being of the Hunt, to purchase the 

 pack, keep it up to a proper standard and, finally, 

 give the refusal of it to the Hunt committee, were 

 the principal conditions on which the manage- 

 ment was entrusted to Captain Cheape upon the 

 retirement of Mr Menzies in 1887.^ 



Captain Cheape, who had served with the 11th 

 Hussars, was master of the West of Fife Hounds 

 from 1878, when Sir Arthur Halkett retired, to 

 1882, and again from 1885, when Mr R E. 

 Wemyss' management expired, to 1887. Through- 

 out these seasons he had hunted hounds himself, 

 — Jack Shepherd being his kennel-huntsman and 

 first whipper-in during the earlier period, and 

 James Beavan during the later. Beavan, who had 



^ Minute-book, vol. ii. pp. 1 and 2. 



273 s 



