THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 173 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Lord Willoughby de Broke— his love of sport and 



ENERGETIC MANAGEMENT— LaDY WiLLOUGHBY's 



horsemanship— presentation to Charles Orvis 

 — some good seasons— pickings from the runs 

 OF Lord Willoughby de Broke's earlier 



seasons. 



And now I have arrived at the period of the present ^°de Sa^^^^ 

 noble master, and how shall I pen all the good things 

 which might be written of his prosperous rule? One feels 

 almost inclined to follow the example of many writers 

 of our country's history, who, when they reach the 

 reign of Qaeen Victoria make a brief reference to the 

 prosperity which characterises it and conclude with 

 the sentiment, "Long may She Reign." And as 

 regards the sentiment I may well follow in their 

 steps, and my readers will echo the hope that for 

 long may he reign o'er the Warwickshire Hounds. 

 But he must by no means^'^be brought on to the stage 

 and taken off again without some reference to what he 

 has done for the hunt, and the debt which the country 

 owes him in consequence. Mr. Lucy resigned the His accession to 

 ofiBce of master in 1876 and Lord|,Willoughby De 

 Broke consented to fill the vacant post, -giving four 

 days a week with a subscription of £2,200, of which he 

 returned £500 to the hunt committee. His father, as 

 Mr. Robert John Barnard and as the ninth Lord 

 Willoughby ])e Broke, had been a notable master, as 

 my readers remember, in earlier days, and his Lordship 



