142 HUNTING TOURS. 



born in 1748. This nobleman is renowned 

 for having taken great delight in all the 

 details appertaining to the chase, and was 

 highly accomplished in the management of 

 hounds. William Deane was the first hunts- 

 man, and came with the pack, which was 

 previously established in Oxfordshire by the 

 Lord Foley of that day, to whom I referred in 

 my notice of the Heythrop country. Deane 

 was a man of high repute, and doubtless the 

 hounds were bred with consummate care and 

 judgment, so far as the appliances and customs 

 of the age permitted. His assistants were Wil- 

 liam Newman, and Lambert, whose son, inherit- 

 ing his father's aptitude, was for many years 

 huntsman to Lord Lonsdale's hounds, in the 

 Cottesmore country. John Clark, wdio held 

 various appointments in the Earl Fitzvvilliam's 

 establishment some six-and-thirty years, and 

 who was for some time whipper-in, eventually 

 succeeded Deane as huntsman. During 

 Deane's administration it appears they very 

 seldom resorted to other kennels for any fresh 

 infusion of blood, except perhaps to Mr. 

 Foljambe's, but as lists of hounds were not in 

 those days published, report is my only autho- 

 rity. When Clark was appointed to the office, 



