252 HISTORY OF THE YORK AND ATNSTY HUNT. 



Mr. Chaloner were at the head of affairs, Mr. George 

 Treacher hunted the hounds for a season, and that gentle- 

 man was Master for a couple of seasons, during which time 

 he probably hunted the hounds himself. 



When Nimrod paid his visit to the country in 1826, 

 Mr. Lloyd was Master, and his huntsman was Naylor, who, 

 in his early days, whipped-in for Sir Thomas Mostyn in 

 Oxfordshire, so he would be trained in a good school under 

 Tom Wingfield. According to Nimrod, he came to the 

 York and Ainsty as huntsman in 1820, but according to 

 another account Mr. George Treacher was hunting them 

 then. The dates about this particular time are very 

 conflicting, and there does not seem to have been any strict 

 record kept, whilst the sporting newspapers and magazines 

 of the time are barren ground indeed. Naylor, however, 

 was evidently with the York and Ainsty some years, and 

 that he was a capital man in the kennel Nimrod testifies, and 

 Nimrod was a gentleman who rarely saw anything worthy 

 of praise out of the Shires. He was especially good as a 

 feeder, and as Nimrod refers to the great pains he took in 

 feeding his hounds in small lots, it seems that that was not 

 a prevalent custom in those days. In the field he was said 

 to be slow, but we have only the travelling critic's authority 

 for that, and it must be remembered that in his time most 

 of the York and Ainsty country was under plough, and 

 under those circumstances ' galloping casts ' were not likely 

 to account for fo.xes, and ' fcstina Icnte ' was a good motto 

 for a huntsman. 



Naylor was succeeded by Jack Wilson, a hard-bitten 

 man, if we may judge from his portrait. He was in olifice 

 several years and showed excellent sport, but where he got 

 his early training I am unable to say. 



Jack Wilson was succeeded by that famous sportsman 

 and hunt servant Will Danby, than whom a keener hand 



