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CHAPTER XVII. 

 Mr. Edward Cyril Brown, 1889 to 1891. 



Mr. E. C. Brown is a younger brother of 

 Mr. Walter Brown, J. P. and D.L., of Brente- 

 legh Hall and Tostock Place, Suffolk. He 

 was born in the parish of Tostock, in Suffolk, 

 in 1857, and was the second son of the late 

 Mr. George James Edward Brown, of Tostock 

 Place, Suffolk, who married, in 1854, Catherine 

 Mary, daughter of Mr. William Mills, J. P., of 

 Saxham Hall. 



Mr. Brown was early entered to hounds. 

 He commenced keeping harriers in 1877, when 

 only twenty years of age ; these he hunted for 

 two seasons. He then acted as second whip 

 to the Suffolk Hounds, Mr. John Josselyn 

 being Master (for the third time), and Tom 

 Enever huntsman. After two seasons Mr. 

 Josselyn gave up the hounds, and Mr. E. W. 

 Green became Master. Mr. Green resigned 

 in 1883, when Mr. Brown took the hounds 

 and hunted them himself In 1885 Mr. Brown 

 gave up the mastership to Mr. J. M. King, 



