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enough, a similar idea had come to the late Hon. 

 Francis Scott, who a little later also wrote to put 

 the project before Colonel Anstruther Thomson. 

 This veteran sportsman immediately saw the value 

 of the suggestion which thus reached him from 

 two different sources, and from people who were 

 strangers to one another. He took up the matter 

 warmly, and soon enlisted the sympathy of many 

 well-known sportsmen and Masters of Hounds, 

 and the Hunt Servants' Benefit Society began its 

 noble work in the year 1872. Among those who 

 helped in founding the Society, and was to the 

 end of her life one of its keenest supporters, was 

 the late Marchioness of Westminster, who gave a 

 large sum of money towards starting it, and whose 

 example was so generously followed by many 

 others. 



That the Society will continue to flourish as 

 long as fox-hunting remains a national sport of 

 England we may be sure, and the day will indeed 

 be an evil one when our friend the fox is no longer 

 the bond of union between all classes in the hunt- 

 inef-field. 



