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CHAPTER VI. 



Lord Kintore, Master 1826 to 1830. 



Anthony Adrian, seventh Earl of Kintore, 

 who now took the country vacated by Mr. 

 Harvey Combe, was born in 1794. He had 

 been a pupil with Mr. Barry, at Sparsholt, 

 Berks, and wrote in after years of the happy 

 days he had then passed in " that ere vale." 

 Afterwards he had been an undergraduate at St. 

 Mary Hall, Oxford. He had thus hunted for 

 years over the country he afterwards became 

 Master of, in the time of Mr. Robert Symonds 

 and Mr. Codrington. He was a rider bold to 

 rashness, greedy for fences ; and he was also 

 celebrated as a boon table companion. On 

 succession to the title on his father's death in 

 181 1 or soon after, he had commenced keep- 

 ing hounds at Keith Hall, his seat in Aber- 

 deenshire. Of this early hunting, reminiscences 

 remain at Keith Hall in the shape of pictures 

 of famous hounds, as " Nosegay," entered in 

 1817, and described by "Nimrod" as "a per- 

 fect hound." " Factor," who was sire to a 

 good many hounds in Mr. Villebois' pack. 



