86 The Pytchley Hunt, Past and Present, [chap, h . 



First Class. 



Tom Assheton Smith. 



Lindon. 



Rolleston. 



Lord Jersey. 



Chaworth (j\Iusters). 



Cholmelev. 



Hon. C. W. Forester. 



Sir B e 1 1 i n g h a m 



Graham. 

 Davy. 

 White 

 Ramsden. 

 Lowther. 

 Staiidish. 

 Lord Plymouth. 

 RanclifFe. 

 Lord Alvanley. 



Second Class. 



V. Maher. 



jNlaxse. 



Osbaldeston. 



Lord E.. Manners. 



Mills. 



Pierrepoint. 



Lucas. 



F. Forrester. 



Lord Dartmouth. 



Brad sh aw. 



Barnett. 



Yane-Powlett. 



Lord Tavistock. 



Lord C. Manners. 



Dottin. 



Christie. 



Third Class. 



Sir F. Burdett. 



C hester. 



F. Bentinck. 



M'Kenzie. 



Lord Aylesford. 



Megler. 



Moore. 



Petre. 



Napier. 



Walker. 



Druramond. 



Arnold. 



Duke of Eiutliuid. 



Lord Lonsdale. 



In the above list the most notable in the first class are 

 the names of the following, the first and foremost being* 

 that of Tom Assheton Smith, Master of the Quorn, and 

 confessedly the straightest man across country that ever 

 rode to honnds. He it was who said that on coming to 

 a big fence, if a man only threw his heart over to the 

 other side his horse was sure to follow ; a dictum, the 

 truth of which few will care to deny. Lord Jersey, 

 father of the Hon. Frederick Yilliers (himself a first- 

 rate man to hounds, and twice Master of the Pytchley); 

 Sir Bellingham Graham and Mr. Cb a worth (Musters), 

 both heads of ihe same establishment; Messrs. Davy 

 and Ramsden, well-known with the Pytchley Hunt of 

 that time ; and of Lord Alvanley, Wit, and Welter 

 weig'ht. At the head of the third class appears the 

 name of Sir Francis Burdett, iu his early days the 

 most outspoken of Radical politicians. A Radical of the 

 Radicals, and an idol of the populace, for some time 

 there was no measure which Sir Francis seemed in- 



