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CHAPTER XV. 



The Earl of Craven and Mr. Tom Duffield, 

 1868 TO 1875. 



The Right Hon. George Grimston, third 

 Earl of Craven, who now became joint Master 

 with Mr. Tom Dufifield, was a member of 

 a family who had long been well known as 

 keen sportsmen. As long ago as 1740 hounds 

 were kept by Fulwar, fourth Lord Craven. 

 These hounds were continued by his two 

 successors for half a century continuously. 

 As was the custom in those times, they 

 roamed about and had no definite country. 

 Fulwar, Lord Craven, brought his hounds 

 every season as far as Dummer, in Hamp- 

 shire, and hunted round that district. His 

 country seat, Ashdown Park, had long been 

 the scene of the celebrated Ashdown Coursing 

 meeting, which from the last quarter of the 

 eighteenth century down to our own times, 

 drew a great company of lovers of the " long 

 tails " from all parts of England. Ashdown 

 Park was built by the first Earl of Craven 



