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312 The Pytchley Hunt, Past a7id Present, 



to that of this young Member of the Pytchley Hunt — one 

 who can " hold his own ^' in a gallop from Crick Gorse — 

 between the wickets — on the lawn-tennis ground — behind 

 the lights, and also at the whist- table. 



MR. LOVELL. 



At the extreme end of the well-known picture, *^ The 

 Crick Meet/^ behind Mr. Stirling Crawfurd, sits one of 

 the few remaining members of the ancient family of 

 Lovell of Winwick, one of a race remarkable for their 

 comely looks, and at one time exalted position in the 

 county. Mr. Lo veil's appearance at the cover-side was 

 attributable to the pleasure he felt in witnessing a " spec- 

 tacle/' rather than from any wish he had to distinguish 

 himself as a Hunter. Such honour and glory as are to be 

 derived from going well to hounds he left to a younger 

 member of the house — one whose manly form and hand- 

 some countenance formed a pretty frequent item of a 

 Pytchley field some five and twenty years ago. A 

 thoroughly good judge of the sort of horse required to 

 gallop over the splendid pastures he looked down upon 

 from the elevation of his house, Lovell of Winwick 

 Warren was a good man to follow, and could at all times 

 hold his own in a run. 



To him it befell, as has been elsewhere narrated, to 

 experience the bitters as well as the sweets of foxhunt- 

 ing, as it was in his house that Mr. Sawbridge and 

 Lord Inverury breathed their last (temp. Mr. George 

 Payne), after falling over, in two consecutive years, a 

 post and rail in one of the big grass-fields in the valley 

 below. 



