CAPTAIN WARNER 361 



CAPTAIN WARNER 



1886-1890 



ON the retirement of his predecessor it was certainly 

 in the fitness of things that Captain Warner 

 should be Lord Manners's successor, as his father had 

 sometime previously purchased the historic Ouorndon 

 Hall. The customary meeting of members was held at 

 the Bell Hotel, Leicester, during April, for the purpose 

 of appointing Lord Manners's successor, Sir Fre- 

 derick Fowke again finding himself in the presidential 

 chair, when the announcement he had to make was that 

 Captain Warner had offered to take over the Ouorn 

 hounds on the same terms as the late master had done, 

 that is to say, on a subscription of ^"4000 a year, ,£2500 

 to be paid to the master, and ^1500 for the poultry 

 claims and covert fund, &c. The committee recom- 

 mended that Captain Warner's offer should be accepted, 

 and the motion was carried with only one dissentient. 



Then it was that Mr. W. F. Miles rose to his feet 

 and, alluding to a meeting of farmers which had been 

 held a day or two before, asked if Captain Warner 

 was aware of what had been done. Some discussion 

 followed, and then a letter, written by Mr. Thomas 

 Nuttall, one of the farmers in question, was read by 

 the chairman. The material parts of the letter were as 

 follows : — 



That this meeting, whilst desirous of promoting the best 

 interests of fox-hunting, protests against the appointment of any 

 master, until they are in possession of the balance-sheet for the 



