58 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1800 to 



Richard After Will Biggs left, Richard 



Foster. Foster came to Mr. Villebois as 



huntsman, in 1815. John Jennings and 

 Sawyer were his whippers-in. Foster lived 

 with Lord Foley, in Worcestershire, before he 

 came into Hampshire. A man named Bishop 

 came with him from Lord Foley, who was 

 second whip when Sawyer was first, and Will 

 Stansby from Lord Petre, who was afterwards 

 huntsman to the H. H., when Mr. Tredcroft 

 was master, in 1859, was also a whip, under 

 Foster. 



Sawyer says: "Foster was the very best 

 woodland huntsman he ever saw; he was 

 wonderfully quick in getting through live stuff, 

 and lost no time in going to a halloo ; and," 

 he added, " we used to drive the foxes in those 

 days !" 



It has been said that Foster encouraged 

 hallooing : if so, he did not teach in vain, for 

 never was such a country for hallooing as the 

 H. H. 



Mr. Terry says: "Seldom were there two 

 such good huntsmen in one county, at the 

 same time, as Foster and Adamson, who 

 hunted the Vine." And Mr. Villebois, when 

 asked which was the better of his two men, 

 Major or Foster, pronounced in favour of the 

 latter. Foster died at Andover, about 1855. 



