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CHAPTER XI. 



Mr. James Morrell, 1847 to 1858. 



Mr. Morland left no children. He was 

 succeeded by his brother, the Rev. Benjamin 

 Morland, whose son, Mr. B. H. Morland, is 

 now the owner of Sheepstead, and was for- 

 merly Joint Hon. Secretary to the Hunt. 



Mr. James Morrell, who now took the 

 hounds was the great-grandson of Mr. 

 Jeremiah Morrell of Wallingford, who died 

 in 1766. His father, Mr. James Morrell, of 

 Headington Hill, had established the well- 

 known Oxford Brewery, and also kept a pack 

 of harriers. Mr. Morrell, the master, was born 

 in 1 8 10, and his father entered him early to 

 hounds, for beside constant practice with his 

 father's harriers, he was only nine when he saw 

 his first fox killed by the Berkshire hounds, 

 then hunted by Mr. Codrington. His father's 

 harriers consisted originally of fourteen couple 

 of the old southern breed ; on one occasion they 

 had a buck turned down in the presence of 

 half Oxford, on the very hill where Mr. 



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