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Mr. Arthur E. Whieldon, Quidhampton. 



Sir Joshua Walmesley, Wolverton Park. 



Mr. Edward Timson of Tatch- Mr. Timson 

 bury Mount, fearing that the Forest 5"h".f.h., 

 would be without anv hounds, 18 ° 4, 

 came forward as master, * and secured a con- 

 tinuance of that sport which had been so long- 

 enjoyed in that country, and so well was his 

 devotion to the cause of fox-hunting appre- 

 ciated, that on his retirement at the end of 

 five seasons he was presented by his friends 

 with a piece of plate, as a token of their 

 esteem for his invariable gentlemanlike con- 

 duct, and unwearied exertions to show sport. 



Mr. Timson's hounds came from His ser- 

 Cornwall, and his kennels were at vants " 

 his residence at Tatchbury Mount. In his 

 first season, Sam Powell, from the SamPoweU. 

 South Wilts, was his huntsman ; he was fol- 

 lowed the next year by John Din- j hnDm- 

 nicomb, who was a very quiet man mcomb - 

 with hounds, and had seen some service before 

 coming to Mr. Timson, having succeeded Jack 

 Grant, Lord Gifford's active whip, when he left 

 Lord Parker, and was also with the V. W. H. 

 and the Puckerid^e. On his leaving the 

 N. F. H., William Hawtin, from the w. Hawtin. 



