22 GOOD SPORT 



luncheon Firr made a speech of neatly-rounded 

 sentences well delivered, for he was a man of many 

 parts, a good musician, and gifted with artistic 

 instincts. 



When there was a class at Peterborough for hunt 

 fox-terriers, Tom Firr and Frank Gillard were to be 

 seen judging them in a side wing. The day these 

 little '' yappers " were banished from the hound show 

 came as a great relief to everybody who hates noise. 

 Yorkshire was represented for many years at 

 Peterborough by the command- 

 ing form of the late Mr. George 

 Lane-Fox — as familiar on the box 

 of a coach at Hyde Park, or as a 

 critic at all important horse shows, 

 as he was to the followers of the 

 far-famed Bramham Moor. The 

 "grand old Yorkshire squire," to 

 give him his familiar title, stood 

 six feet in his stockings, erect 

 as a pine-tree, was one of the 

 old school in dress and deportment, a model 

 landlord, master of the Bramham Moor for forty- 

 eight years, and it was a proud boast that he had 

 never been out of England. Near to Mr. George 

 Lane-Fox was generally to be seen his friend and 

 contemporary- -a match in height and keenness for 

 hounds — Colonel Anstruther Thomson , whose laurels 

 were won in the Fife, Bicester, Pytchley, and Ather- 

 stone counties, and whose reputation extends from 

 north to south. 



Lord Middleton to-day is a regular attendant at 

 Peterborough, but representatives of his famous 

 Yorkshire pack of medium-sized hounds, descended 

 from those bred by Sir Tatton Sykes, are seldom 

 seen showing. 



Mr. George Lane-Fox 

 M.F.H. 



