330 SPORTING REMINISCENCES [1845 to 



J. Dean, T. Adams, H. Sampson, T. Hunt, 

 John Lillywhite, H. Wright, T. Lockyer, 

 J. Grundy, J. Wisden, and Tom Sherman ; 

 they scored 181. The Eighteen were — Messrs. 

 T. Onslow, H. Frere, W. Clement, F. Compton, 

 C. H. Ridding, Digby Compton, Charles Theo- 

 bald, H. S. R. Pearce, Sir F. Bathurst, Bart,, 

 T. C. Elliot, H. T. Johns, J. Greenwood, T. 

 Chamberlayne, R. Bodle, W. Buttress, G. 

 Chatterton, D. Day, and Henry Musselbrook ; 

 they scored 63 and 47. 



On Mr. Robert Pearse retiring 

 , r v -.\. from the management of the H. H., 



Mr. Knight © ' 



master of ]\/[ r Edward Knight of Chawton 



the H. H. & 



House became master. Mr. Knight 

 has been alluded to frequently as a good 

 sportsman and fine rider. His huntsman was 

 Joseph Joseph Orbell, one of the best that 



ever came into Hants ; he was par- 

 ticularly good in drawing a covert, and in 

 other respects most anxious to show sport ; on 

 leaving the H. H. he went to the Puckeridge. 

 Tom Hedges and John Bailey, son of William 

 Bailey of the Anchor Inn, Ropley, were 

 whippers-in. 



TheH.H.c. The Hambledon Hunt races were 

 M C a y' 3 . held on Soberton Down on May 3rd. 



