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At the next meeting of the Hunt Committee 

 held on the 20th March, iSot;, the followino- 

 resolution, proposed by Sir William Throck- 

 morton, Bart., and seconded by Mr. Edmund 

 Kyffin, Lenthall, was carried unanimously. 



" That at the first meeting of the Hunt 

 Committee after the death of our excellent 

 and much esteemed Honorary Secretary, Mr. 

 Crowdy, we desire to express our sympathy 

 with his family at their loss, and to record our 

 deep feeling of gratitude for the long and 

 faithful services he rendered to the Old Berks 

 country for a period of nearly forty years." 



In 1897 Mr. William Thornton West, of 

 Barcote, died. He was a most liberal sup- 

 porter of the Hunt, and the annual breakfasts 

 he gave to the Hunt will be long remembered. 



