LORD LONSDALE 



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Hardy. Sam Gillson was whipper-in at Belvoir, 

 under Frank Gillard first, and then Ben Capell, 

 afterwards he became huntsman to South and West 

 Wilts., going from there in the same capacity to 

 the Bedale country, which is a capital school for 

 huntsmen. Sam Gillson hunted the Cottesmore 

 hounds four days a week for four seasons, leaving 



The Earl of Lonsdale master of the Cottesmore. 



when Lord Lonsdale gave up the mastership at the 

 end of season 1910-11. 



The type of hound Lord Lonsdale favoured was 

 built near the ground, with plenty of bone and stuff, 

 but no lumber, the shoulders well laid into the 

 muscles of the back. Lord Henry Bentinck's sort 

 we are told was a hound weighing five or six stone, 

 but to-day the stud-hounds of some kennels weigh 

 between ninety and a hundred pounds when in 

 hard condition. Mr Henry Chaplin has said that 

 " excess of bone in a racehorse or a foxhound may 

 amount to vulgarity " ; yet for a stud-hound plenty 



