MR. THOMAS THORNHILL MORLAND 123 



Resolved : " The committee on behalf of the Club 

 accept Mr. Morland's proposition and in so doing 

 return him their thanks and those of the Club for the 

 trouble he has taken and the interest he has shown 

 in their behalf. The above proposition is not to 

 interfere with the regulations agreed upon at Abing- 

 don for hunting the two countries." 



{Signed) T. Thornhill Morland. 

 Thos. Stonor. 

 Walter Strickland. 

 Jno. Shaw Phillips. 



Thus Mr. Morland became master. His 

 "reign" was to last for twelve eventful years. 

 The country he undertook to hunt extended 

 from Faringdon, to Stonor Park, near Henley. 



Mr. Thomas Thornhill Morland was a grand- 

 son of Mr. William Morland of West Ilsley, 

 who died 1773. ^'^ father, Mr. Benjamin 

 Morland, married, first, Miss Harriet Baster 

 and, second, Miss Thornhill, daughter of Mr. 

 Edward Thornhill of Kingstone Lisle, by 

 whom he had three sons, Thomas, the master, 

 Benjamin, who succeeded his brother as squire 

 of Sheepstead, the father of the present Mr. 

 Benjamin Henry Morland ; and George Bowes, 

 the father of Mr. John Thornhill Morland, and 

 the late Mr. Edward Morland, of Abingdon. 



When he became master, Mr. Morland had 

 just married Louisa, daughter of Mr. Martin- 

 Atkins of Kingstone Lisle. He built kennels 



