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CHAPTER XIX. 

 Captain F. W. Forester, 1893 and 1894. 



Captain Orr-Ewing was succeeded in the 

 mastership by Captain Francis William Fores- 

 ter, late of the 3rd Hussars, D.L. for Durham. 

 Captain Forester is a grandson of Major 

 Francis Forester, Royal Horse Guards, who 

 married, in 18 13, Lady Louisa Catherine 

 Barbara, daughter of the Duke of Cleveland, 

 from whom Captain F. W. Forester inherited 

 a large fortune. Captain Forester had, when 

 with his regiment, hunted the 3rd Hussar Fox- 

 hounds during the season 1889- 1890. Those 

 hounds hunted that part of the County of Cork 

 formerly and again now known as the " Mus- 

 kerry Country." He was also Master of and 

 hunted himself the "County Limerick" Fox- 

 hounds during the seasons of 189 1-2 and 

 1892-93. Captain Forester took up his resi- 

 dence at Buckland House, the seat of the 

 President of the Hunt, Sir William Throck- 

 morton. He hunted the hounds himself and 

 took over the existing staff, viz., Joe Lawrence, 

 first whip and kennel huntsman, and Albert 

 Maiden, second whip. Unfortunately, at this 



