CHAPTER V 



THE HUNTS AND THEIR HISTORY 



Importance of the Huntsman — Increasing Difficulties of Hunting 

 — Music and Pace of different Packs — The Quorn — Mr. 

 Meynell — Lord Sefton — Nimrod's Comments — Mr. Osbaldes- 

 ton — Tom Firr — Lord Lonsdale — Captain Burns-Hartopp — 

 The Cottesmore — Sir William Lowther — Sir Richard Sutton 

 — Lord Kesteven — Mr. Baird — Foundation of the Kennel — 

 Mr. Evan Hanbury — Arthur Thatcher — Oakham as a Hunting 

 Centre — The Belvoir — A Big Crowd — The Hunt Servants and 

 their Horses — A Typical Day — History of The Pack — Suc- 

 cessive Huntsmen — Belvoir Blood in Other Packs — Sir 

 Gilbert Greenall and Capell — Brocklesby and Belvoir — 

 Goodall and Gillard — Masters of the Belvoir — Society at the 

 Castle — Deputy Masters — Lord Forester — Dukes of Rutland 

 — A great County Hunt — Mr. Fernie's Hunt — The Country — 

 The Division during Sir Richard Sutton's Mastership — Mr. 

 Tailby — Some Hard Riders — The Billesdon — Sir Bache 

 Cunard — Why Mr. Fernie's Fixtures are not Overcrowded — 

 Big Studs the Exception — The Right Kind of Horse — Brooks 

 in the Country — Notable Huntsmen trained in Mr. Fernie's 

 Country — The Pack — The Pytchley — Mr. Naylor's Master- 

 ship — Squires, the Huntsman — Northamptonshire as a Hunt- 

 ing County — Mr. Meynell's Influence on Hunting — The First 

 Earl Spencer — Dick Knight — Mr. Warde — His Horse " Soly- 

 man" — A Long Run— Lord Althorp — Later Masters — Sir 

 Bellingham Graham — Mr. Osbaldeston — Mr. George Payne — 

 Lord Chesterfield — "The Other Tom Smith" — Sir Francis 

 Goodricke — A Hunting Pauper ^ — Charles Payn — Colonel 

 Anstruther Thomson — Conflicting Interests in a Hunting 

 Country — Lord Spencer as Master — M. Bruneti^re on 

 English Sports — Sir Herbert Langham — Whyte-Melville on 

 the Pytchley — The Woodland Pytchley — Early Masters — 

 The Woodlands — The Atherstone — Mr. Osbaldeston — Lord 



