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Heatlicote was returned for Nortli-West Staffordshire in 

 1886, but retired from parliamentary life at the General 

 Election in 1892. His regiment was the 63rd (West 

 Suffolk, now Manchester Regiment). Captain Heathcote 

 joined in 1863, and retired in 1870, "without ever," as 

 he writes, "having run the slightest risk of perforation." 



Another of our regular followers, Mr. Lovatt Ayshford 

 Wise, of Clayton Hall, near Trentham, was going for 

 somewhere about the same period as Captain Edwards- 

 Heathcote, and very well he used to go across country, 

 riding good well-bred cattle, and, being a nice light weight, 

 he generally held a good place in a quick thing. He was 

 a resolute horseman, with good nerve, fond of a jump, and 

 particularly partial to timber. He too left the district 

 some time in the eighties, and, we believe, then gave up 

 hunting. 



Sir Delves Louis Broughton, of Doddington Park, is 

 one of the best friends and supporters of the Hunt. He 

 owns a large estate in the neighbourhood of Doddington, 

 Woore, and Checkley, and there is no landowner to whom 

 the Hunt is more indebted for fox-preservation and for 

 sport than to Sir Delves Broughton, whose coverts are 

 always open to the Hunt, and have been responsible for 

 any number of good gallops. As he is not himself a 

 specially keon or zealous rider to hounds, there is all the 

 more reason that his unfailing and unselfish support of 

 the Hunt should be duly acknowledged. 



Mr. H. Ker Colville, of Bellaport, also deserves special 

 mention as a fox-preserving landowner, whose coverts 

 generally provide the right article, and who has for years 

 been in every way a kind and liberal supporter of the 

 Hunt, although he now no longer rides to hounds. 



Mr. Basil Fitzherbert, of Swynnerton, may be in- 

 cluded in the same category as one of the fox-preserving 

 landowners to whom the Hunt is greatly indebted for 

 much sport obtained through the kindly and unselfish 

 action of those who have given up following hounds on 

 their own account. ]\Ir, Fitzherbert has had several sons 



