CHAPTER IV. 



"But all that I care for, and all that I know, 

 Is that with a scent we 're certain to go." 



MR. W. H. WOOD, of West Hetton Lodge, and now 

 of Coxhoe Hall, performed the Honorary Secretarial 

 duties during the whole of the time that Mr. John 

 Harvey was master of the South Durham Hounds with the 

 greatest care and efficiency, indeed Mr. Harvey says in a 

 letter bearing date, April 13th, 1881, and speaking of Mr. 

 Wood, " his accounts are a marvel for particulars ! " Mr. 

 Wood continued the office of Honorary Secretary for the 

 first season of Sir William Eden's first mastership, when he 

 resigned, to the regret of the members of the Hunt, and at 

 the desire of Sir William, who purchased the entire pack of 

 hounds in 1879 for the sum of £700, Mr. R. Ord, of Sands 

 Hall, undertook the Secretarial duties,* which he fulfilled 

 until his own mastership. The name of South Durham was 

 now withdrawn, and the hounds became known as Sir 

 William Eden's Hounds, the master having undertaken to 

 hunt the country five days a fortnight. As a matter of fact 

 they hunted three days a week as soon as the regular season 



• Mr. R. Ord's great uncle, Mr. Benjamin Ord, was honorary secretary of the Lambton 

 Hunt during the whole of Mr. R. J. Lambton's mastership, from 1804 to 1838. 



