246 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



No Other orentleman having- come forward 

 this sporting offer was accepted. 



The joint Masters retained the services of 

 Treadwell as huntsman and Tom Squires as 

 first whip, and purchased the Vine hounds 

 from Mr. Arthur Whieldon. The hounds 

 remaining in the kennel, by New House, 

 which had been buih by the Hunt when Mr. 

 Greaves became Master. Mr. Starky took up 

 his residence at the Road Side Farm, South- 

 moor. He was a generous, kind-hearted man, 

 and an excellent sportsman ; but, unfortu- 

 nately, he took too much to racing, from 

 which he derived anything but benefit, the 

 result being that he had to sell his property, 

 Spye Park, near Chippenham, which was 

 bought by a Mr. Spicer, and is now owned 

 by his son. Captain Spicer. 



Mr. E. Martin-Atkins was a son of Mr. 

 Martin-Atkins, of Kingston Lisle, who took a 

 prominent part in the management of the Hunt 

 in Mr. Morland's time. His father married 

 Caroline, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. 

 Thomas Duffield, of Marcham, and he was 

 therefore a first cousin of his hunting partner, 

 " Tom " Duffield, who was Mr. Duffield's son 

 by his second wife, Augusta, daughter of 

 Colonel Rushbrooke, M.P. for West Suffolk. 



The opening neet was at Kingstone 



