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Lodge. He went to serve in South Africa, when the war 

 broke out, and distinguished himself. 



In the thirties, Mr. Paul Walmsley, a friend of Mr. 

 Meyn ell's, lived at Foston, and in 1889 the Hon. George 

 Allsopp took it, the Cummings having left it previous to 

 the Admiral's death, which occurred in 1894. Mr. Allsopp 

 was a very staunch supporter of the Hunt, took the 

 greatest interest in its concerns, and always had plenty of 

 foxes in his coverts. Hounds have found as many as five 

 times there in one day. He left Foston in 1900, and 

 Mr. Cecil Leigh, Mrs. Fort's brother, hunted from it in 

 1900-1901. In the late Mr. Broadhurst's time the old 

 house was burned down, and he lived where Mr. Fort is 

 now while the present house was being built. Mr. Broad- 

 hurst died abroad in 1876, and on November 13th, the 

 day on which his body was brought home to be buried, 

 hounds were stopped just as they were running to Foston 

 out of respect to the memory of a constant follower of them. 



Mr. Gerald Hardy, the present owner, belongs just 

 now more properly to the Atherstone, having left the 

 Meynell country to become master of the neighbouring 

 pack when Mr. Inge gave up the Mastership. Conse- 

 quently his biography will be written when a history of 

 that Hunt appears. Wherever he has hunted he has 

 always been in the first fiight ; in fact, nothing in the shape 

 of a fence can stop him. He has jumped some extra- 

 ordinary places in his time, both here and elsewhere, and, 

 as one would naturally expect from his style of going, he 

 has had some very bad falls, nearly always injuring his 

 head. He is also a very fine polo player, and his pro- 

 ficiency at whatever he undertakes is all the more remark- 

 able from the fact of his having lost an eye. He is a very 

 popular man with all classes in this country, and when he 

 comes to take up his abode here for good he will have a 

 very warm welcome. His brother, Sir Reginald, always 

 has plenty of foxes at Dunstall, and, though he does not 

 hunt much himself, his sons are all very keen. 



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