HUNTS AND THEIR HISTORY 185 



shire grass applies equally to it. The North War- 

 wickshire or the outlying quarters of the hunt need 

 not detain us, and, not forgetting that to the roll of 

 its huntsmen must be added the name of Tom Firr, 

 we pass to the history of the Warwickshire since the 

 division. 



It may be doubted whether, in spite of railways, 

 wire and mange, the golden age of Warwickshire will 

 not be found by future historians of hunting in the 

 late Lord Willoughby de Broke's mastership from 

 1876 to 1900. Not only was the sport during that 

 time of the highest order, but with infinite pains and 

 thought there was built up a kennel of hounds which 

 is second to none. How Lord Willoughby de Broke 

 did this, of his popularity with the puppy walkers, 

 of his annual visits to the leading kennels in company 

 with Mr. J. M. Richardson, the Rev. Cecil Legard 

 and the late Mr. J. M. HoUiday, I leave my readers 

 to gather for themselves from the pages of Baily's 

 Magazine. There they will find the story of Lord 

 Willoughby's mastership traced by a skilled and 

 sympathetic pen. The writer had a knowledge of 

 his subject to which no outsider could pretend. Thus 

 he has enabled us to see the secret of success in the 

 pains taken in both the kennel and the field by a 

 man who was always thorough and of undoubted 

 ability. 



The skill as a huntsman which enabled the late 

 Master of the Warwickshire to show such unrivalled 

 sport was the result of study and pains. Always a 

 forward rider, he was able during Mr. Lucy's master- 

 ship to watch the methods of Robert Worrall and 

 Charles Orvis, two excellent sportsmen and thorough 

 huntsmen who carried the horn at that period. During 

 the latter part of the time of Orvis's service Lord 



