MR. THOMAS THORNHILL MORLAND 191 



there, as he said himself in after years, he first 

 acquired his love for hounds, in the kennel as 

 well as in the field. When Lord Parker 

 started the " South Oxfordshire Hunt " Mr. 

 Morland sent him seven and a-half couple of 

 hounds, with their pedigrees, for his book was 

 very carefully kept. 



In the winter of 1847 he met with a severe 

 carriage accident, and towards the end of the 

 spring of 1847, his health began to fail, and 

 he caught a severe cold while superintending 

 the digging out of a fox close to Sheepstead 

 cottage. The fox was killed at Frilford, but 

 Mr. Morland had seen his last hunt. He 

 gave up the country and sold the bulk of 

 the pack to Mr. James Morrell, his successor. 

 He died September, 1848. By a curious 

 coincidence Mr. John T. Morland, the present 

 Clerk of the Peace for Berks, was out for 

 the first time on the day his uncle, Mr. T. T. 

 Morland, saw his last fox killed, and bid 

 farewell for ever to the hounds and the sport 

 he had loved so well. 



In the field Mr. Morland was always 

 courteous, and if he had to rebuke, did so 

 with a studied politeness that was very 

 effective. An old member of the hunt remem- 

 bers that upon one occasion, when he with 

 some other eager young men were a little too 



