12 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



the result of a hunting accident in 1874. He was, 

 however, a minor, only eight years old, so the 

 trustees appointed the Hon. Charles W. W. Fitz- 

 william to watch over the embryo master's interests ; 

 this arrangement lasted three seasons, 1874 to 1877, 

 when the Marquis of Huntly, a keen sportsman 

 and large landowner in the neighbourhood, acted 

 as master until 1880. A cousin of the present 

 master, the Hon. W. Thomas W. Fitzwilliam, since 

 deceased, held office for seven years, when the 

 rightful master, who then held a commission in the 

 Blues, took the command for one year, 1887-88, but 

 gave it up, not being sufficiently interested with 

 the duties. Mr Henry Wickham, who married a 

 sister of the Marquis of Huntly, then followed with 

 a four years' mastership, 1888 to 1892, to be suc- 

 ceeded by a very fine horseman, Mr Joshua Fielden, 

 who filled up the gap until 1895. Mr George Fitz- 

 william then assumed the mastership, seeking the 

 co-operation of his friend Mr Charles B. E. Wright, 

 who had just finished sixteen seasons' mastership 

 to the Badsworth. Mr Wright hunted the hounds 

 himself for six seasons, by which time the present 

 master had come with Mrs Fitzwilliam to reside 

 at Milton, and since 1901 has made one of the keenest 

 masters and most successful hound-breeders that 

 ever presided over the destinies of the ancient kennel. 

 When writing of Peterborough and its associations 

 with fox-hunting, which centre around the far-famed 

 Milton hounds, it was our intention to try and find 

 an unwritten page of hunt history. But we realise 

 that the 191 1 chapter of the hunt is nearly identical 

 with what others recorded years before we were 

 born ! For a century and a half the pack has been 

 owned by a Fitzwilliam, served by huntsmen who, 

 during long tenures of office, have carried out the 



