CHAPTER IV 



CAPTAIN MARTIN E. HAWORTH : 1843-45 



Family connections — The Devon Harriers and their doings : Sir Henry Seale'a 

 opinion — The Devon Hounds — Kennels near Powderham — Guest at 

 Eggesford — A run through twelve parishes — Anstruther Thomson's 

 criticism : a critic at fault — ^^^lere a hard-and-fast rule fails — Incon- 

 venient position of kennels — A notable hiinting diary — Cliief fixtures of 

 that day — The master's keenness — Good sport — Bag-foxes given up — 

 " Shaking a fox " — A notable run — Fox in otter's holt — Scent in snow — 

 A point from Stover to Holne Bridge — Other memorable runs — A master's 

 troubles : was wire among them ? — Some of his field — Takes the H.H. 

 — Lady Mary Leslie's story of " The Barber " — An active terrier — The 

 Silver Greyhound and Road Scrapings — Tom Clark whipper-in to the 

 Devon — Becomes huntsman to the Craven, Old Berksliire and Badminton 

 — ^The Duke's opinion. 



" Slight token, be it leaf or flower, 

 Will mark for Ufe one blissful hour ; 



So trophies of the chase recall 



The men, the hounds, the steeds and all." 



{Dartmoor Days.) 



HUNTING men in South Devon were fortunate 

 in securing an immediate successor to Sir 

 Walter Carew in the person of Captain Haworth. 



After resigning his commission in the 60th Rifles, 

 Captain Haworth went to live at Southtown House, 

 Kenton, and was factor to the Powderham estate, his 

 wife. Lady Mary Haworth, being a cousin to the then 

 Earl of Devon. In 1886 Lady Mary Haworth became 

 Countess of Rothes in her own right, and Captain 

 Haworth then assumed by royal licence the surname 

 of Leslie, the family name being now Haworth Leslie. 

 His eldest son married a daughter of Mr. Henry 



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