258 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



Breakfast was provided at New House. The 

 hounds were thrown off into the Ashbed close 

 by. A fox was found at once who took them 

 through Hinton, Buckland, Hatford Wadley, 

 to Faringdon Grove, and then back to Wadley 

 House where he went to ground, and was left 

 to run another day. 



In 1870, the Rt. Hon. E. P. Bouverie 

 resigned the office of President of the Hunt 

 Committee, Lord Barrington (having been 

 elected by the Committee of the Hunt to 

 succeed him) taking his place. 



Mr. Edward Pleydell Bouverie, who had 

 been President of the Hunt since 1859, was the 

 younger of the two sons of William, third Earl 

 of Radnor, who was Master from 1833 to 1834, 

 by his second wife, Anne Judith, daughter of 

 Sir Henry St. John, who assumed the name of 

 Mildmay in addition to his own on marrying 

 the heiress of that family, and was born in 1818. 

 Coleshill House was but fitfully occupied until 

 the marriage of Mr. Bouverie's elder brother, 

 Lord Folkestone, in 1840, when Lord Radnor 

 gave up Longford Castle, his place in Wiltshire, 

 to the newly-married couple, and went per- 

 manently to reside there. When Lady Radnor 

 died, in 185 1, it was arranged that Edward 

 Bouverie should reside with his father at Coles- 

 hill as his country home, and from that date 



