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from his book and other authorities in my possession, and in tota,lly 

 altered phraseology and changed order give records of five patrician 

 sportsmen who, in bygone years, made the world ring with their deeds 

 of skill, pluck and endurance in all that pertained to manhood. Besides 

 being contemporaries, they were all great personal friends. Necessarily 

 my reference must be brief and cannot be adequate to the subject, but it 

 will show that neither in ancient nor modern times have we had such 

 prodigies, while to our rising generation these men are, as regards 

 manliness, noble examples to take pattern from. I begin with 



Mr. Geoege Osbaldeston 

 of Hutton Bushell, near Scarborough. He was born in Wimpole Street, 

 London, on December 26, 1787. At Eton his skill as a boxer soon 

 developed itself and he became " Cock of the School." In cricket 

 he took an equally high degree. Directly upon leaving Oxford he 

 established a pack of harriers, which he hunted from his own place in 

 Yorkshire; but after a few years he purchased Lord Monson's fox- 

 hounds and began as M.F.H. in the far-famed Burton country. He 

 always swore by the Monson blood, and it was from that stock he bred 

 the best pack of working hounds then in the three kingdoms. His 

 renown as a huntsman and rider to hounds has been chronicled many 

 times, I shall therefore refer to his hunting in but cursory manner. 



After hunting the Burton country for five seasons, then under thirty 

 years of age, he took Mr. John Musters' country in Nottinghamshire, 

 but not liking it he soon after became master of the Atherstone. To 

 that country he added what Lord Vernon hunted in Derbyshire and 

 purchased the best portion of his lordship's pack to strengthen his 

 own, making his kennel up to ninety couple of hounds. Things in 

 Staffordshire did not turn out to his satisfaction, so when Mr. Assheton 

 Smith resigned the Quorn in 1817 The Squire succeeded him and 

 showed wonderful sport in Leicestershire until 1821, when, for a season, 

 Mr. Belli ngham Graham was master, but The Squire resumed office in 

 1823. His second term, as the annals show, was one of the most bril- 

 liant epochs of the Quorn Hunt, but while hunting with Lord Anson's 

 hounds in 1826 Osbaldeston met with a terrible accident- through 

 having his leg broken, which laid him up for a year and necessitated 

 his giving up the Quorn. 



In 1827 he became master of the Pytchley. In that country, as in 

 the other?, he showed the best of sport. In one season he had forty 

 good days out of fifty and no less than twenty-three first rate runs in 

 succession. 



Mr. Osbaldeston was always his own huntsman, bred his own 

 hounds, and had for many years as first whip the celebrated 

 Dick Burton ; also Jack Stevens. During his Pytchley reign he 

 hunted the Thurlow country in Suffolk for two seasons. To 

 accomplish which he underwent marvellous exertion, for to meet each 

 pack on alternate mornings he had to travel most part of nearly every 



