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secondly, Mr. Frank Oakes, son of Mr. 

 Harvey-Oakes, of Stowmarket. 



On Wednesday, February the 20th, 1878, 

 a testimonial, consisting of a silver watch and 

 teapot, and a purse of 700 sovereigns, was 

 presented to the Huntsman, John Tread well. 

 The presentation took place at a dinner held 

 in the Council Chamber at Abingdon ; Mr. 

 C. P. Duffield in the chair. Treadwell was 

 the son of Jem Treadwell, who was entered 

 to the sport under Mr. Codrington. Jem 

 Treadwell was for many years huntsman to 

 Mr. Farquharson, in Dorsetshire. John 

 Treadwell first became known as a hard-riding 

 whip in Hampshire. Then he went into 

 Essex as huntsman to Mr. Henley Greaves. 

 Afterwards he went to the Cottesmore with 

 Mr. Greaves. He then became huntsman 

 to the " Quorn " for five years under Lord 

 Stamford. His uncle, James Treadwell, had 

 carried the horn in the Quorn country just 

 twenty years before. Treadwell rejoined Mr. 

 Greaves in 1863, when he took the Old 

 Berkshire country. He remained Huntsman 

 of the Old Berks for nearly twenty years. He 

 retired in 1882, and died at Kingston Bagpuize 

 in 1895. 



The authors of the Essex Hunt say of him : 

 " Of Treadwell's skill in hunting there is no 



