THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. AND LAST. 

 Dinner to Lord Wtlloughby de Broke — the 



RECENT SEASON — A GREAT FROST — RUN FROM IdLI- 



coTE TO Banbury— Lord Willoughby's success- 

 ful EFFORTS — evidence OF HIS POPULARITY — 



Banbury as a hunting centre— the rank of 

 Warwickshire — conclusion. 



Rarely, perhaps, has so large and enthusiastic a 

 gathering taken place to do honour to one man in the 

 Warwickshire country as that which nnetin the County 

 Hall, at Warwick, on the evening of Saturday, March 

 29th, 1890, to mark the esteem in which Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke is held, and the appreciation his 

 services have met with during his fourteen years of 

 management. Mr. E. P. R. Knott, of Fenny 

 Compton, occupied the chair and proposed, in most 

 eulogistic terms, the toast of the evening, which was 

 drunk amid cheers,hunting cries, and musical honours. 

 Over three hundred hunting men and agriculturists 

 came from all parts of the country to do honour to 

 their master. It is so fresh in the memories of my 

 readers that I need hardly say any more about it, but 

 an account of his Lordship's rule without a reference 

 to such testimony of popularity as this presented, 

 would scarcely be complete. 



The season 1889-90 was a remarkably good one. 

 There was a lot of capital sport, 47 braces of foxes 

 having been killed and 27 brace run to ground. 



Dinner to Lord 

 Willoughby de 

 Broke. 



The Season 

 1889-90. 



