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mentioned. Sir David Roche, father of the present 

 master, and Colonel John Vandeleur, of the loth Hus- 

 sars, his uncle, built kennels, stables, &c., near Croom, 

 where the hounds were kept, with the exception of 

 one season, until 1861. Mr. Fosbery, dying about 

 the year 1845, there was a committee formed of Mr. 

 Frank Fosbery, his son, the Rev. Thomas Croker of 

 Croom Castle, and Mr. Edward Green of Green- 

 mount. The trio kept the country for two seasons, 

 until 1847, when Colonel Dickson came to reside 

 at Croom Castle, and took the hounds, having for 

 huntsman Fred Turpin (afterwards killed with the 

 Braham Moor Hounds) ; he continued in office two 

 seasons, when they were taken by the Hon. Fitz- 

 maurice Deane, and removed to Springfield Castle, 

 he only hunting the west of the river Maigus. This 

 arrangement only continued for one season, and the 

 hounds returned the following year to their old ken- 

 nels, near Croom, under the management of the for- 

 mer committee, which continued until 1853, when 

 Mr. Green took sole mastership until his death, in 

 1 861. The country then bid fair to become vacant, as 

 there was but a scant subscription, a wretched pack 

 of hounds, consisting of twenty-three couple, the 

 country in very bad order, as regards coverts, and 

 hardly a fox to be found. Under these conditions. 

 Mr. Roche, as he then was, came forward and offered 

 to hunt the country with his own hounds, and lay out 

 the subscription on putting the country in order. 

 He got together a tolerable lot of hounds, being 

 greatly assisted in so doing by Mr. Tom Pain, then 

 master of the South Wilts, now partner in the firm of 



