2i8 FOX-HUNTING FROM SHIRE TO SHIRE 



Mr Penn Sherbrooke, M.F.H. 



of Buckingham, who was the first master. Many 

 are the packs which lay claim to be the oldest in 

 the country ; but the Sinnington must have been 



one of the first, though con- 

 tinuous records have not 

 been preserved. Through 

 the kind invitation of the 

 present master of the 

 Sinnington, Mr Penn C. 

 Sherbrooke — whom we 

 knew when hunting with 

 the Belvoir and the South 

 Notts in his native county, 

 before taking on the duties 

 of mastership in 1894 — and 

 renewing acquaintances, we 

 spent a most interesting day in August 191 1 at Kirby 

 Moorside. Mr Sherbrooke admits that he owes 

 success in mastership to the assistance of his 

 wife, who is the daughter of the immortal Mr 

 John Chaworth Musters, of venatic and hound 

 fame ; and like her father one of the best across 

 country. The previous master to the Sinnington, 

 Mr R. Clayton Swan, during the three seasons he 

 was in ofhce, brought about great changes, building 

 kennels for the pack which up to then were trencher 

 fed; also the hunt servants until 1894, found their 

 own horses out of the wages they received. Mr 

 Swan left seventeen couples of hounds— taking the 

 rest to hunt the Morpeth country— and Mr Sher- 

 brooke built up a pack with Burton, Blankney 

 and Belvoir blood during the ten years of his first 

 term of mastership. After hunting for one season the 

 country vacated by Sir Everard Cayley, Mr Sher- 

 brooke returned to the Sinnington, to join Lord 

 Helmsley in a joint -mastership ; and has attained 



