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favour and esteem, and improving the pack 

 under the masterly directions of Lord Yar- 

 borough, who died in the year 1823; but 

 more emphatically under his successor the 

 first Earl, whose nautical affections raised 

 him to distinction as commodore of the 

 Royal Yacht Club. But a sad accident befel 

 poor Smith on the 11th of April, 1845, 

 when hunting near Barnoldby le Beck. The 

 hounds had checked, and Ranter hit the scent, 

 William Smith in the act of cheering him, 

 coming to a small fence with a trifling ditch 

 on the off side, riding carelessly at it, his 

 horse put his foot into the ditch, fell, pitch- 

 ing his rider on his head and injuring the 

 spine. He was conveyed to the house of Mr. 

 Richard Naiseby, at Barnoldby le Beck, 

 under whose friendly roof he expired four 

 days after the sad event. On ground given 

 by Mr. Naiseby an obelisk has been erected 

 to his memory with the following pathetic 

 and appropriate inscription written by Sir 

 Charles Anderson, Baronet : — 



This stone the name of William Smith records, 

 The huntsman skilled of two of Yarbro's lords ; 

 Honest and true of temper, well approved, 

 By "Master" honoured, and by "Field" beloved. 

 No need to paint that well-known form and face, 



