Gentlemen Riders 



death, Mr. Osbaldeston followed Lord Monson's hounds for 

 a time, but on coming into a large sum of money which had 

 accumulated since his father's death, he at once took the 

 Burton country, which for five years he hunted entirely at 

 his own expense ; at the end of which time he went into 

 Nottinghamshire as successor to Jack Musters, where he 

 remained until 1817, when he took over the mastership of the 

 Quorn from Mr. Assheton Smith, which important post he 

 held for ten years. It was during his tenure of office in 1826, 

 that Nimrod wrote his celebrated article for the " Quarterly 

 Review," descriptive of a run from Ashby Pastures, which not 

 only created a furore at the time, but is talked of even to 

 this day. 



In 1827, when out one day by chance with the Warwick- 

 shire Hounds, his horse overjumped himself at a bullfinch 

 with a big drop the other side, and turning a half-summersault 

 in the air, his rider was hurled from the saddle. He was 

 jumped on as he lay on the ground by Sir James Musgrave, 

 who was following immediately behind, and his thigh was 

 broken. " Hang it, Osbaldeston ! I thought you were a safe 

 man to follow ! " was all Sir James found time to say, as he 

 galloped on after the streaming hounds. 



The Squire was never the same man again after this 

 fall. Not only was one leg rendered shorter than the other, 

 but his nerve was impaired as well, as was noticed in the 

 Newmarket match in 1831, when on one of the horses — 

 I key Solomon — whipping round when he mounted, he at 

 once jumped off, and as a consequence he resigned the 

 mastership of the Quorn the same year. The following year, 

 however, we find him assuming mastership of the Pytchley, 

 a post he held until he gave up hunting in 1834, whilst in 

 addition, during two years of that period, he hunted the 



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