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228 HISTORY OF THE BRAMHAM MOOR HUNT. 



He'll break his neck, sure, either sooner or late, 

 For he'd rather ride over than open a gate.'* 



It is related of Martin Hawke that he always had a 

 keen eye for anything- relating to sport, and that he had 

 little regard for anything else. On his return from the 

 Grand Tour, which in his younger days it was de rigueur 

 for every gentleman in his position to make, he was asked 

 what he thought of the Continent, and what he had seen 

 there ? His reply was that he had seen a very good pointer 

 at Vienna ! 



The keenest of the keen, as he was the most hospitable 

 In a country famous for its hospitality, was Mr. Lamplugh 

 Wickham, of Chestnut Grove. He kept open house, and 

 there was always 'oceans' of claret for the followers of the 

 Bramham Moor, whether natives or visitors, in which to 

 drink the favourite and time-honoured toast : ' Bramham 

 ' Moor and five-and-twenty couple.' Claret Grove was the 

 name which Mr. George Lane Fox bestowed upon this 

 hospitable mansion. Mr. Wickham was not only keen and 

 a good man to hounds, in which respects his descendants 

 follow his excellent example, but he was one of those men 

 who are invaluable in a Hunt. If any little thing wanted 

 smoothing down, or there was anything which required doing 

 for the benefit of the Hunt, Mr. Wickham was the one to 

 take it in hand, and bring it to a successful issue. 



The Leeds contingent was not such a strong one in 

 those days when railway accommodation was not, but there 

 were some good men and true from the capital of the West 

 Riding who threw in their lot with the Bramham Moor. 



* Another member of the Hawke family met with his death by a fall from 

 his horse. This was Chaloner, thiid son of the first baron. The song from 

 which the quotation is made w-as written by Mr. Martin Hawke, who, ' with 

 George Osbaldestone, was the life and soul of the Hunt Club at Beverley,' in the 

 early days of the Holderness. He was uncle to the Martin Hawke who was 

 killed. 



