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THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



^1821^ '182^5°^ *^^'° improved and they ran him on to Tysoe. There 



* he turned to the right and took them to Idlicote 



Heath, being killed just before he could reach the 

 covert at that place. Altogether the work he gave the 

 field amounted to some three hours in point of time. 

 The pace was continually fast and the field, which at 

 the end was a very select one, was considerably beaten, 

 Mr. H. Campbell, Sir C. Mordaunt, and Mr. Augustus 

 Berkeley were up at the death. Mr. Napier rode a 

 famous black horse of Lord Clonmell's, but did not get 

 him to the death. He left the horse in a field and ran 

 alongside the huntsman, whose horse was also knocked 

 up, to the place where the fox was killed. Mr. Camp- 

 bell, who did so well in the Ditchley run, was the first 

 up and got the brush. The noble master stopped at 

 Idlicote. 



One day at the end of the season 1820-21, the meet 

 was at Admington, and a good number was present. 

 As Lord Middleton was galloping round the field his 

 horse crossed its legs, fell, and threw him, afterwards 

 rolling upon him and injuring his shoulder and thigh. 

 Fortunately he sustained no serious injury, but it dis- 

 mounted him, and he resigned the hounds. The 

 hounds he gave to his friend Sir Tatton Sykes, 

 and his stud of hunters was sold about two years 

 after his actual resignation, at Leicester, fetching high 

 prices. During Lord Middleton's time and that of his 

 predecessor the hounds were sometimes at covert by 

 seven and generally by eight o'clock, so that, in those 

 days, sportsmen with some miles between them and 

 the fixture had to stir themselves betimes. 



In the first year of Lord Middleton's mastership, 

 they killed 49J brace of foxes, which was the greatest 

 number killed within the same period of time during 

 his lordship's management. No one could sit 

 a horse better than Lord Middleton, but he worked 

 according to his humours. Sometimes he would jump 

 everything in his way and beat the whole field, and at 

 others he would stay behind and lead his horse over 



Accident to Lord 

 Middleton. 



His retirement. 



His horseman- 

 ship. 



