3o6 The Pytchley Hunt^ Past and Present, 



H.M.'s 5th Dragoon Guards, but at tliat time residing 

 at KiDgsthorpe, in the house now holding out the sign of 

 the " Prince of Wales." Few men were better known, 

 both in the Oakley and the Pytchley Hunts, than this 

 cavalry-officer of the olden time. A thorough sportsman 

 and true lover of hunting in early life, the Major — a heavy 

 man — forged his way well across country ; but latterly 

 he had quite given up riding, and was satisfied to be 

 beholden to the various means and appliances of seeing a 

 run without incurring any obvious risk. He died still a 

 young man, but those who love to recall the days and 

 men of the Charles Payne era do not fail to connect with 

 it the name of Bingham, commonly known as '^ Joe " 

 Newland. 



MR. STIRLING CRAWFURD. 



In the extreme left corner of the '^ Crick '' picture, ad- 

 dressing Mr. Gough of North Kilworth House — an old 

 sportsman, and one of the "P. H.'s " staunchest friends 

 and best preservers of foxes — sits Mr. Stirling Crawfurd 

 of Langton Hall. From the days when he first dated his 

 letters " Trinity College, Cambridge," to the hour that 

 he passed away, the possessor of the finest stud of race- 

 horses in the world, no name was more familiar in 

 sporting circles than that of this Scotch gentleman. 



Carrying in his mouth at the moment of his nativity 

 that silver article by means of which the battle of life is 

 fought most pleasantly and with the greatest success, Mr. 

 Crawfurd had little opportunity of viswing existence on 

 any other side save its sunny one. Indebted to things 

 under the earth for the means of er.joying those above 



