3o8 THE OLD BERKS HUNT 



hunted with the Old Berks when Mr. Charles 

 Duffield was Master. He then went to live 

 at Coughton, and used to cross over to 

 Ireland to hunt with the Meath and West- 

 meath. He became joint Master with his 

 brother-in-law, the late Sir Gerald Dease, of 

 the latter pack, for the last two years of Sir 

 Gerald's mastership. The joint Masters gave 

 up in 1868, when Sir William returned to 

 Buckland. In 1869 he took the V.W.H. 

 The first season he hunted them practically 

 from Buckland, riding often long distances to 

 covert, but afterwards he bought a house in 

 the country, Cicely Hall, near Cirencester. 

 Sir William bought from his predecessor in the 

 Mastership (the present Sir Matthew Wilson, 

 of Eshton Hall), the pack which that gentleman 

 had purchased from Mr. Charles Duffield, his 

 huntsman beino- Robert Worrall. Sir William 

 resigned the Mastership in 1875, being suc- 

 ceeded by Lord Shannon. 



Sir William Throckmorton was formerly 

 well known on the Turf, and was a member of 

 the Jockey Club and of the National Hunt 

 Committee. At one time or another he 

 carried off pretty well all the prizes at the 

 meetings of the old " Bibury Club," but his 

 first considerable success was the " Steward's 

 Cup " at Goodwood, which he won in 1877, 



