CHAPTER III 



FAMOUS MASTERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 



Mr. John Corbet- -Lord Middleton— Lord Althorp— Mr. 

 George Forester — Parson Stephens — Tom Moody — Mr. 

 John Mytton — Mr. Thomas Assheton-Smith — Mr. George 

 Osbaldeston— Mr. Tom Smith— Sir Watlcin Williams 

 Wynn — The Duke of Beaufort 



MR. JOHN CORBET 



Few people understand the difficulties of the modern 

 sporting author. I allude to these difficulties because, 

 though I have used every endeavour to make this book 

 a readable work of reference, I am aware that I must 

 have made errors, if not in regard to facts, in regard to 

 opinions ; but the following anecdotal memoirs are, to 

 the best of my belief, authentic. There may be many 

 sins of omission in regard to them, but I have taken 

 every precaution in my power to see that there should 

 be no sins of commission. There are many Masters of 

 the nineteenth century whom, perhaps, I ought to 

 have mentioned, some of whom may probably have 

 been more famous than those to whom I intend to 

 allude ; but, to do full justice to all of them, I should 

 have required a volume or two of the " Dictionary of 

 National Biography." 



