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huntsman in 1830-31, frequently receivos honourable 

 mention. On one occasion he is named as one of five who 

 alone saw a fine run in 1833 from Meon Hill, ending with 

 a kill in the open, after an hour and five minutes without 

 a check ; and on another occasion in the cub-hunting season, 

 when they had a tremendous gallop and a kill close 

 to Crick, in Northants — a fifteen-mile point — Boxall is 

 mentioned as the only one who started with the hounds 

 and was up at the finish. He is also given great credit 

 for his exertions to show sport, and for the style in which 

 the hounds were turned out. Our Will Boxall's father, 

 whose name was Zachariah, was also bred to hunting, and 

 in his time filled the situation of whipper-in to the North 

 Stafibrd Hounds under Joe Maiden, and was afterwards 

 with Baron Rothschild and then with Mr. Tailby, etc. 



Will Boxall, our present huntsman, began riding as 

 a youngster at Newmarket in 1860, under Godding, the 

 trainer, and stayed there till 1866, when he went to Mr. 

 Chaplin at Blankney as second horseman, and afterwards 

 as second whip for several seasons. In 1877 he came to 

 Trentham as first whip, and has remained with the North 

 Stafi'ord Hunt ever since, having been promoted, as 

 already rtated, to the post of huntsman on the death 

 of Dickins, in 1896. Happily the time has not arrived for 

 a critical essay on Boxall as a huntsman, for we sincerely 

 hope and trust that he will live for many years yet to 

 come to wield the horn, and to add to the laurels he has 

 already gained. Moreover, the present writer, having 

 given up hunting for the last eight or nine seasons, has 

 had no opportunity of witnessing Boxall's methods at the 

 head of affairs, and is therefore precluded from offering 

 any opinion ; but we may say that if he is as good with the 

 horn as he was in the position of first whipper-in, he ought 

 to satisfy the most exacting sportsman. In his earlier 

 days he won, most deservedly, a great name as a bold and 

 fearless horseman ; on several occasions he has been a 

 winner between the fiags, and even held his own and came 

 in second in 1873 on Mr. Chaplin's horse Rhysworth, at 



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