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names was also presented. At the dinner it was 

 announced that Mr. E. K. Lenthall had be- 

 come Joint Secretary of the Hunt with Mr. G. 

 F. Crowdy, in place of Mr. Barrett, resigned. 



A dinner was also given to John Dale, 

 which took place at the Hind's Head, 

 Kingston Bagpuize, on Friday, April the 24th, 

 1863. Mr. John Blandy- Jenkins presided, 

 and on behalf of the Hunt presented Dale 

 with a handsome silver tankard and a purse 

 of 100 sovereigns. 



Mr. Duffield sold his hounds to Mr. 

 Wharton- Wilson, of Ablington (now Sir 

 Matthew Wharton- Wilson), who had just 

 taken the Vale of White Horse country, the 

 price being 800 guineas. John Dale accom- 

 panied his old favourites as huntsman. Mr. 

 Duffield continued one of the warmest sup- 

 porters of the Hunt, and one of the most 

 reofular followers of the chase for the rest of 

 his life. He became Joint Master again with 

 Mr. Victor Van de Weyer, in 1884, Mr. 

 Duffield acting as " Field Master." To the 

 end his universal popularity remained, or 

 rather continually increased. To his hunting 

 friends he was always " Mr. Charles " ; to his 

 personal friends invariably "Charlie Duffield." 

 He died in 1889. At the first meeting of the 

 hunt after his death the general feeling was 



