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THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



Mr. John Corbet 

 1791-1811, 



Mr. Roberts. 



Mr. Hooper. 



Mr. Kynaston. 



Other followers 

 of Mr. Corbet. 



Despite all that has been written previously about 

 Warwickshire welters, I think the first place for weight 

 alone must be given to Mr. Henry Roberts, who 

 resided near Stratford-on-Avon, and was constantly 

 with " the Warwickshire." He could not have been, it 

 is said, under 20 stone, but he, nevertheless, rode well 

 to hounds. Mr. William Hooper, of Moreton-in-the- 

 Marsh, met "the Warwickshire" pretty regularly, 

 particularly in the Wolford part of the district. He 

 hunted on an old Waterloo horse which bore him 

 twenty seasons, the united age of horse and rider being 

 114. 



Mr. E,. KynastoD, who hailed from near Chapel 

 House, Oxfordshire, should perhaps have been men- 

 tioned among those Warwickshire worthies who stand 

 grouped round the famous Epwell run, and whom I 

 dealt with last week. Be hunted in Warwickshire 

 during its early days and was at the meet at Epwell on 

 the morning in question, on his horse *' Whalebone," 

 but he did not see the celebrated run, his horse having 

 lost a shoe and thrown him out of the sport daring the 

 preliminary business. 



Among others who appeared in the field with Mr. 

 Corbet were Lord Willoughly de Broke, whom I have 

 referred to before in connection with an opening dinner 

 which he gave each season to the members of the club; 

 the Earl of Aylesford, of Packington Hall ; the Earl 

 of Warwick ; Mr. Holbech, of Farnborough ; Sir E. 

 Smythe, Sir John Mordaunt, General Williams, Mr. 

 Curtis, Mr. Fetherstone, Lord Villiers, Sir J. Shelley, 

 Mr. Cattell, Mr. H. Robbins, Mr. T. Handley, &c. I 

 am aware that this is but a skeleton list of names and 

 regret that I cannot clothe it with the flesh of anecdote. 

 Some of them I may possibly have occasion to refer to 

 again, but they are all worthy of mention in connec- 

 tion with the great man, of whose field they formed 

 part. During Mr. Corbet's absence abroad, the Earl 



