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of the late Mr. John Morritt, of Rokeby Hall, 

 York, and by her he left three daughters, 

 Lady Haldon, the Countess of Craven, and 

 the Hon. Florence Barrington. 



At a special meeting of the Hunt a motion 

 of sympathy with Lady Barrington, and of 

 grateful appreciation of the services of the 

 late Lord Barrington, was passed. Upon the 

 proposition of Mr. Van de Weyer, Sir William 

 Throckmorton was unanimously elected Pre- 

 sident. 



The Hunt Club was indeed fortunate in 

 having, in the very centre of the country, a 

 man having every qualification that a President 

 should possess. The representative of one of 

 the old Catholic families. Sir William traces 

 his descent from John de Throckmorton, who 

 held the manor of Throckmorton soon after 

 the Conquest. By marriage with Eleanor, 

 daughter of Sir Guy de Spineto, in the 

 fifteenth century, the Throckmortons became 

 owners of Coughton, in Warwickshire ; through 

 the heiress of John Courtney, of Molland, 

 Devon, they acquired that property, and by 

 alliance with the Yates, the charming estate 

 of Buckland, Berks, came to them. Sir 

 Nicholas Throckmorton, Elizabeth's Ambassa- 

 dor to France at the time of the Huguenots, 

 was a cadet of this family. Sir William 



