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Candover) formed a committee for the ma- 

 nagement of the Hampshire hounds, whereof 

 Mr. Villebois was the chief manager. 

 ^ r _ . . Mr. Villebois was the son of Wil- 



Mr. V lllebois. 



liam Villebois, descended from a 

 French family who settled in Ireland. He was 

 born at Feltham, in Middlesex, October, 1772. 

 Was great-grandson, on the mother's side, of 

 Sir Benjamin Truman, brewer of London, and 

 founder of the firm of Truman, Hanbury, and 

 Buxton. He and his next brother, Henry,* 

 succeeded, when quite young, to the two prin- 

 cipal shares in the brewery, and when they 

 came of age were each in possession of large 

 fortunes. They both retained their interests 

 in the brewery until their deaths, although 

 they took no active part in its management. 

 Mr. Villebois was educated at Harrow, and 

 afterwards went to Christ Church, Oxford. 

 He came into Hants soon after he was of age, 

 and lived both at Preston Candover and at 

 Brown Candover. 



For two winters he hunted from East End 



* Mr. Henry Villebois was also born at Feltham, 1777 ; was at 

 Harrow and Oxford; a friend of the Prince Regent's; a great whip, 

 and member of the old Four-in-Hand (Benson Driving) Club. He did 

 not reside in Hants, but came on visits to his brother. His own place 

 was Marham House, near Downham, Norfolk. He died in London in 

 1847. His son, Mr. Henry Villebois, kept the V. W. H. in 1849, and 

 hunted that country until 1854, when he retired, and sold his hounds 

 to the Earl of Portsmouth. He has since hunted the country round 

 Swaffham and Lynn, in Norfolk, and is as popular there as his uncle 

 was at Harmsworth. 



