160 THE SOUTH DEVON HUNT 



By the end of the season 1889-90, the sport had 

 taken such a firm hold on the people east of the Exe 

 that they decided to have a pack of their own. So it 

 came to pass that the " East Devon Hunt " was 

 formed under the auspices of the Hon. Mark Rolle, 

 Lord Poltimore, Lord Dunboyne, General Drewe, 

 Sir John Kennaway, Mr. W. R. Coleridge, Colonel 

 Garratt, the Rev. J. H. Coplestone, Colonel Talbot 

 and many others. At a very representative and 

 enthusiastic meeting held at the New London Hotel, 

 Exeter, Colonel J. A. T. Garratt was elected master, 

 a position for which he was peculiarly fitted, not only 

 by reason of his having acted as field-master for 

 Mr. Studd whenever the latter was absent, but also 

 from the fact of his possessing most of the qualifica- 

 tions necessary to the office. The choice was a 

 prudent and fortunate one, and Colonel Garratt 

 remained a very popular master of the East Devon 

 for twenty-two years, at the end of which period he 

 resigned in 1912 in favour of his son, Major L. C. 

 Garratt. Mr. H. W. Gould, who had acted as 

 honorary secretary on that side of the water for Mr. 

 Studd, was appointed to act in the same capacity 

 for the new hunt. 



On the formation of the East Devon pack, Mr. 

 Studd directed his energies to the more efficient 

 hunting of what was properly speaking his own 

 country, the Haldon side of the South Devon. Dan 

 North, who had returned from Haldon to Oxton 

 when Lord Haldon gave up, had left to go to Mr. 

 Bolitho's, The Western, in 1888, and had been suc- 

 ceeded by Smith, who, in addition to being a good 

 kennel-huntsman, was a capital man in the field and 

 possessed a great knowledge of how to hunt a fox. 

 He left after two seasons, and Mr. Studd then deter- 



