Mr. Net her cote — Major New land. 305 



Club had on its list of Members some of the greatest 

 names in the country, and to be one of the Associates of 

 which was in itself a mark of distinction. The pages of 

 the old 8po7'ting Magazine have recorded that among 

 the Members of the '' P.H.^^ Mr. Nethercote took high 

 rank as a sportsman and as a rider to hounds ; and such 

 was his love of hunting that long after he had passed his 

 eightieth year he would drive to every near Meet. Up 

 to the day before his death, he begged to know the 

 details of the day's sport, and faintly expressed his regret 

 that it had not been a better one. So remarkable was 

 this good old Country Squire for the geniality of his 

 nature and his kindness of disposition, that one who lived 

 with him for fifty years can conscientiously affirm that he 

 never heard him speak ill-naturedly, scarcely even de- 

 preciatingly, of any one. Any decently clad pedestrian 

 on his way to the county-town on market-day was sure 

 to have the offer of a lift ; and an almost imperturbable 

 temper seemed proof against any annoyance save that of 

 the " boozy " carrier on the wrong side of the road, on 

 his homeward way from market. 



A son may perhaps be pardoned for the assertion that 

 there never lived a more complete embodiment of kind- 

 heartedness and hospitality than the fine old English 

 gentleman here spoken of ; one upon whose death in bis 

 eighty-fourth year, the last link connecting the ancient 

 and modern history of the Pytchley Hunt was severed 

 for ever. 



MAJOR NEWLAND. 



Facing the spectator in the " Crick " picture is the 

 then well-known form of Major Newland, formerly of 



