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Messrs. G. H. Hext, R. Vicary, W. Engelhardt, H. P. 

 Skidmore, W. Rendell and Captain Templer. It was 

 also agreed that there should be no obligation on the 

 master to hunt the Haldon side one day a week as 

 originally intended, but that the hunting in that 

 district should be left to the discretion of the master, 

 who, moreover, was not to be bound to take the field 

 on any stipulated days other than Tuesdays and 

 Saturdays. It was further decided, at the master's 

 request, the pack being his own property, that the 

 hunting appointments should in future be advertised 

 in the name of " Mr. St. Maur's Hounds (the South 

 Devon)." 



It is difficult to classify under the various master- 

 ships the members and followers of the hunt. They 

 form an ever-changing body, and some last many 

 years longer than others. The composition of the 

 field in Mr. St. Maur's time was, on the whole, very 

 much the same as it had been during the regime of 

 his predecessor. Dr. Gaye, and the following were, 

 for the most part, hunting pretty regularly under 

 both masters. 



The older members (in the sense only that they had 

 followed the South Devon under several previous 

 masters), included Messrs. W. R. Hole, G. H. Hext, 

 A. Rendell, A. Hingston, J. Kitson, W. C. Clack, 

 T. Codner, H. W. Steele, P. Symons, R. Vicary, 

 C. G. Vicary, E. Tucker, F. C. Simpson, Captain 

 J. G. E. Templer, Messrs. E. Fearnley Tanner, H. S. 

 Wright, J. Whidborne (in Dr. Gaye's time), and 

 Major Keating. 



Ladies were not nearly so numerous in the field 

 twenty or thirty years ago as they are to-day. The 

 most prominent of them were Mrs. Goodwyn, Mrs. 

 G. H. Hext, Mrs. Henley, Miss Norris, daughter of 



