THE MASTERS. U 



Pelliam was somewliat of a character, and one of liis 

 sayings was that he wished he "had been tenting pigs in 

 Habrough Fiehl when his brother was born ; " meaning 

 that had he been so employed at the time of his brother's 

 birth, he, George Pelham, would have been the eldest son, 

 and heir to the title and estate. Another saying in 

 connection with his brother was : " My brother, Lord 

 Yarborough, is all right at pulley-hauley on a yacht, but 

 he can't say ' Yoi, over, boys,' like me." He once kept 

 a pack of harriers, and was a thorn in the flesh of old 

 Will Smith, as he did not stoop his hounds entirelij to 

 nimble-footed puss. He w^as also Master of the South 

 Wold from 1823 to 1826, residing at Legbourne at the 

 time. The Brocklesby hunted that country up to 1795, 

 having kennels at Ketsby, and till 1820 some trencher- 

 fed harriers hunted fox and hare indiscriminately. From 

 1820 to 1822 they were called the Gillingham, and were 

 hunted by Mr. Brackenbury from Scremby, and in 1822 

 the kennels were transferred to Hundleby, and the pack 

 called the South Wold. Mr. GeorQ-e Pelham once took 

 out a horse-dealer's license, and a board to notify the fact 

 was affixed to the outside of his house at Laceby. 



In his younger days Mr. Pelham was in the Army, and 

 saw active service ; but he had no yearning for military 

 glory, and soon sent in his papers, much to his father's 

 disappointment. 



Mr. Pelham always had a good stud of hunters. He 

 bred a few thoroughbreds, putting some into training, 

 and occasionally riding, himself, on the flat ; he rode J\lr. 

 Davy's brown mare Shepherdess at Caistor races on April 

 4th, 1826, and Mr. Charles Nainby, of Barnoldby, told 

 the writer he remembered him riding Elsham Witch for 

 the same owner at Caistor as well. This Mr. Davy was 

 grandfather of the present Mr. H. E. Davy of Croxby 

 Hall. At the above-mentioned meeting in 1826, Mr. Tom 

 Brooks won the first race on his Weeper, Sir Tatton 

 Sykes being second on Mr. Ferriby's Skinflint. In the 

 other race, Mr. F. Isles's Black Dwarf, Mr. W. Whitworth 



