10 THE BROCKLESBY HOUNDS. 



coated tenant farmers in the field ? The present Lord 

 Yarborough's great-grandfather was once asked where 

 he got his tenants from ? " Get them ? " replied his 

 lordship ; " get them ? I don't get them ; I breed them." 

 And so it was : the same farms, the same love of high 

 farming, and of sport of all kinds, descending from father 

 to son, and from generation to generation. But things 

 have altered since then, and the iniquitous burdens placed 

 on the land, and the decline of prices, consequent upon 

 foreign preference, are rapidly crushing the life out of 

 England's oldest and once its most important industry. 

 Gone are the landlords of the old school, " the backbone 

 of England, the fox-hunting squires," are few and far 

 between ; gone are the sport-loving farmers of fifty years 

 ago, and gone that charming old country life that made 

 so many great Englishmen. Unless English agriculture is 

 to be run as a trust by an American syndicate, that too 

 will soon be gone, I fear. 



The planting of the Pillar Woods, those ideal cub- 

 hunting grounds, was begun in 1787, and was completed 

 in 1823, twelve and a half million trees having been 

 planted, as is recorded on the monument called Pelham 

 Pillar, that landmark on the wolds that may be seen from 

 any portion of Lord Yarborough's country. 



The first Baron Yarborough's eldest son, " the Commo- 

 dore," as he is generally spoken of, sat in Parliament for 

 Grimsby and the county for twenty years. He married 

 Miss Bridgeman Simpson, of Badsworth, in 1806, who 

 inherited from her mother, the only daughter of Sir 

 Thomas Worsley, Bart., the estate of Appuldurcombe, in 

 the Isle of Wight. He was created Baron Worsley and 

 Earl of Yarborough in 1837, was the first Commodore 

 of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and died on board his 

 celebrated yacht, the Kestrel, in Vigo Bay, ofl" the coast 

 of Portugal, in 1846. His brother George, who also 

 represented Grimsby in Parliament, was more fond of 

 field sport than he was. Lord Yarborough devoting most 

 of his time to politics and yachting. The Hon. George 



