210 WITH HOUND AND TERRIER. 



largest landowner and fox-preserver in the Black- 

 more Vale Hunt country. So great, indeed, is 

 Mr Digby's local influence, that fox-hunting would 

 soon cease to exist in this part of Dorset without 

 his help. Being such a good friend to fox-hunting, 

 and so popular a landlord, it is a pity he is not 

 oftener to be seen at the covert -side to share in 

 the sport that he provides so liberally for others. 

 The late General Sir William Parke, K.C.B., of 

 Thornhill, was also a good preserver, and it was 

 a great loss to the country when he died in 1897. 

 At one time the largely attended hunt breakfasts 

 during Christmas week at Thornhill were quite a 

 feature of the hunt. 



Others whose names I can recall, and who were 

 generally to be seen at the fixtures, were Major 

 Sherston of Evercreech, a nephew of Lord Boberts, 

 with whom the Commander-in-Chief was often out 

 when he was staying in the neighbourhood, Mr 

 Chafyn - Grove and his son and daughter from 

 Coker, Colonel the Hon. E. Digby of Buckshaw, 

 Mrs Holford, than whom there is no better judge 

 of hounds and hunting, and who with her daughter 

 was always in the first flight, Mr Percy Brown, 

 Mrs M'Call, Mr and Mrs Jack Martin, both such 

 straight riders, Mrs Gundry, who went so well 

 on her beautiful Irish mare, Mr Berkeley Napier, 

 Miss Dendy, Mr and the Hon. Mrs M'Lean, Miss 

 Mildmay, Mrs George Gordon, Mr Marker from 

 Devon, Mr Mansell Pleydell, Mr H. Cross, Mr 

 A. Sutton, Mr and Mrs Gadesden, Mr Hambro, 



