JOHN KING OF FOWLESCOMBE 39 



Ley of Woodlands, Clerk to the House of Commons ; 

 Mr. H. Ley, Rector of Kenn ; Mr. Short of Bick- 

 ham ; Mr. Stowey of Kenbury ; Mr. Burlton of 

 Exminster ; Mr. Eales of Easton ; Mr. Makepeace ; 

 Mr. St. Leger, grandfather of the present Lord 

 Doneraile, and Mr. Quenton. 



When Mr. Pode of Slade gave up hunting, his 

 country — virtually the Dartmoor country of to-day 

 — was taken over by King and Bulteel. We are 

 told that this was "somewhere about the year 

 1828," 1 and that the partnership was merely tem- 

 porary, Bulteel succeeding to the country and taking 

 the hounds of Mr. Pode. The real date would 

 doubtless have been 1829, after King gave up the 

 South Devon country. In that year he migrated 

 to Hampshire, and was master of the Hambledon 

 Hounds from 1829 to 1841. ^ He appears to have 

 been a great success in that country and to have 

 shewn excellent sport, notwithstanding a serious 

 accident that befell him in 1832, when his horse fell 

 on him, which interfered a good deal with his riding 

 for some time afterwards. He was the founder of 

 the Hambledon Hunt Club.^ Honourable mention 

 of him in prose and verse appeared from time to 

 time in the New Sporting Magazine of the period. 



I learn from Miss Turner, Hon. Secretary of 

 the Hambledon Hunt, that, while in Hampshire, 

 King lived at Corhampton, a village close to Drox- 

 ford. This explains the fact of his being sometimes 

 spoken of as " of Corhampton." But to us in the 

 West he remained to the end John King of Fowles- 

 combe. When he gave up the Hambledon on account 



^ Letters on the past and present Foxhounds of Devonshire, p. 46. 

 * Baily's Hunting Directory. 

 ^ Fores's Guide, p. 36. 



