32 STAGHUNTING WITH THE 



and Sir W. R. Williams, are well-known figures 

 at Cloiitsham. 



The master, Mr. R. A. Sanders, took the 

 hounds on Colonel F. Hornby's resignation in 

 the spring of 1895, and has increased the number 

 of hunting days from three to four each week, 

 being the first master to hunt the hounds himself, 

 which he does on one of the four days while 

 the huntsman enjoys a much needed rest after 

 the other three. Mr. Sanders contested the 

 Eastern division of Bristol at the General Elec- 

 tion of iQOO, and considerably low^ered the 

 previous Liberal majority. In 1901 he became 

 an alderman of the Somerset County Council. 



The field-master, Lord Ebrington, who only 

 appears in scarlet on the fourth, or master's clay, 

 in each week, succeeded Mr. Bisset in the 

 mastership, and held ofBce until Mr. Basset 

 took command in 1887. 



The huntsman, Anthony Huxtable, who figures 

 largely in the illustrations, has been in the service 

 of the Hunt for twenty-five years, and has 

 known five masters. He retires at fifty years of 

 age, having carried the horn for twelve years, 

 acted as whipper-in to Arthur Heal for nine 

 years, with four previous years in the Hunt 

 stables. Born in Kentisbury parish of working 

 parents, he was brought as an infant in arms to 

 Driver Cott, and made his first acquaintance with 

 Exmoor, as seen from horseback, when riding on 



