8 THE ETON COLLEGE HUNT. 



Schneider and Senhouse were Chambers' whips, and at the 

 end of the season a presentation was made to him as a testimonial. 

 During the next year W. T. Trench held office with ¥.G. Pelham 

 and H. M. Meysey-Thompson (now Lord Knaresborough) as his 

 whips. W. T. Trench in a letter said : *' We wound up the 

 season with a drag to Maidenhead, when the subscribers very 

 kindly presented me with a silver cup, which I am proud to have 

 on my dining table now." 



F. G. Pelham was Master during the following season. He 

 won the Mile and was second in the Steeplechase in 1868. As 

 his second whip he had W. R. Griffiths, the Captain of the 

 Boats. Pelham also had a testimonial presented to him. 



I have passed over these three years lightly because little 

 information has come to hand and no anecdotes at all. It is 

 too long ago to expect much, and what I have are merely 

 isolated statements. But in 1864 I am on firmer ground. Col. 

 R. F. Meysey-Thompson has supplied me with a diary which con- 

 tains a complete record of the season's sport. H. M. Meysey- 

 Thompson was Master, and his whips, A. Turnor and S. H. 

 Sandbach, are still alive. There is so much to be said about 

 H. M. Meysey-Thompson that a letter from A. Turnor will not 

 be inappropriate here as giving an excellent and vivid summary 

 of the sport. 



" North Stoke, Grantham. 



" The recollection of the Eton Beagles in 1864 is perhaps 

 more vivid than my recollection of Aeschylus and of Homer. 

 The kennels were on Dorney Common, a miserable and ram- 

 shackle construction, and a bagged fox resided within earshot 

 of the musical harmony of his relentless pursuers. Joby Minor, 

 the most artful poacher in Eton, was kennel huntsman, ran with 

 the drag and administered to the comforts of the fox. The 

 hounds, a somewhat unlevel pack, were contributed by the ardent 

 sons of Nimrod who valued more the hunting lore of Beckford, 

 Silk and Scarlet, and such like sporting authors, than anything 

 Greece or Rome could produce in the way of Classics. W. T. 

 Trench and his brother Benjamin, Lord Worcester, Dick 

 Thompson and the writer were notable amongst others who 

 brought hounds, and the Hon. Evelyn Pelham and the present 

 Lord Knaresborough were amongst those who carried the horn. 

 The sport was of the finest, and the climax was reached when 

 hounds found a wild hare, and after a choral service of two hours 

 hunted her to the death. 



