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Brocklesbj' Hunt, as a testimony of their high estimation of 

 his propriety of conduct and great abihty as a Huntsman : 

 October, 1834." Sebright had a somewhat similar present 

 from the gentlemen and yeomen of Lord Fitzwilliam's Hunt, 

 in 1S36. Sebright is another instance of the passion for 

 hunting running in families. He is the son of a famous 

 Huntsman, and was almost nursed in the kennel. He has 

 gone through all the gradations of service. At fifteen he 

 entered the list of Whips under West, who hunted the old 

 Surrey when Mr. Nevill was Master. He then went to Mr. 

 Osbaldeston, and from him he came to Lord Fitzwilliam. 

 Skinner is a good name. There were three brothers at work 

 with hounds a few years since, all by old Skinner, who was 

 live-and-fifty years with Mr. Meynell. There were four Hills, 

 all Huntsmen or first Whippers-in at the same time. Tom 

 and his brother Peckham in Surrey, Jem in Wiltshire, and 

 Dick in Oxfordshire, or Jem in 0.xfordshire and Dick in 

 Wiltshire, we forget which. The Oldacres were all sportsmen, 

 and the name not to be beat ; the celebrated old Tom was 

 father of two Huntsmen. Treadwell is a good name in the 

 hunting world. There are two brothers who have graduated 

 from Huntsmen-Whipper-in-ships to be regular Huntsmen ; 

 one under Mr. Codrington and Mr. Horlock, the other under 

 Mr. Smith of the Craven. Mr. Codrington's Treadwell now 

 hunts Mr. Farquharson's hounds, and has a son a Whipper-in 

 with the Hambledon ; Charles, Mr. Smith's one, is now 

 Huntsman with Lord Harewood. Old Tom Rose got young 

 Tom Rose ; and, if we mistake not, Tom Wingfield, Mr. 

 Drake's Huntsman, in Oxfordshire, is son of Tom Wingfield, 

 who whipped-in to Raven and Goodall in Leicestershire in 

 Lord Sefton's time. Mr. Drake's Huntsman, Wingfield, has, 

 or had, a Whipper-in of the name of Goodall, very likely a 

 son of Goodall the Huntsman. Tom Leedham, Mr. Meynell 



