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Colonel Stack, Mr A. Dickenson, Mr Hugh Neville, 

 the two last being well known over the flying 

 country, Miss Parke, and Mr and Mrs Wilson. 



Among the farmers who not only enjoyed the 

 sport but had the interests of the hunt thoroughly 

 at heart, were Messrs G. Dampney, Martin Rich- 

 ards, R. Conway, W. Corry, H. Bugg, W. Field, 

 Phippen, Adams, J. Ryall, Whateley, H. Miller, 

 Young, Wadman, Brain, Shute, White, Warren, 

 Howe, Sawtell, Day, Holloway, Curtis, Bull, 

 Clarke, Shingleton, Brake, Ayles, Courtney, Dun- 

 ford, Marsh, Whittle, Edwards, Hoddinott, Francis, 

 Hayter, Penny, Tabor, Harris, Fifett, J. Roberts, 

 Andrews, and the late Mr C. Spicer, who was a 

 host in himself. 



An association in which every hunting man and 

 woman in the country ought to take the warmest 

 interest is the Hunt Servants' Benefit Society, 

 and as the idea of the Society originated in the 

 Blackmore Vale country, I cannot close my remi- 

 niscences better than by giving the history of its 

 inception. To Lady Theodora Guest belongs the 

 lasting honour of having evolved the idea of a 

 society which would make provision in time of 

 sickness, and at death keep from want the families 

 of those who risk life and limb in our service in 

 the field. 



When Lady Theodora first thought of the 

 scheme she wrote to enlist the sympathy and help 

 of her friend Colonel Anstruther Thomson, then 

 Master of the East Fife Foxhounds. Strangely 



