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MEMBERS OF THE CLUB continued 



Mr. Coke Mr. Parkhurst 



Duke of Rutland Mr. Molineux 



Duke of Bedford Earl of Surrey 



Mr. Lascelles Lascelles Sir William Milner 



Mr. Prjker Sir John Ramsden 



Mr. Tyssen Mr. Royds 



Mr. Molloy Sir Richard Simonds 



Mr. Affleck Earl of Lincoln 



Mr. St. George Marquis of Graham 



Earl of Eglinton Mr. Parsons 



Lord Orford remained manager of the Falconers' Club till 

 his death in 1792. After his death the control of the establish- 

 ment passed into the hands of Colonel Wilson of Didlington, 

 who subsequently became Lord Berners. The hawks were 

 kept at High Ash, near Didlington, but as kites became very 

 scarce the heron was the chief quarry. The club seems 

 to have been carried on and the hawks maintained, to some 

 extent at any rate, by subscription up to the date of Lord 

 Berners's death in 1838. Several sketches were made by Sir 

 E. Landseer of the hawks at Didlington, one of which, with 

 the date, 'Didlington, June 30, 1831,' is in the author's pos- 

 session. 



Previously to Lord Berners's death herons had become com- 

 paratively scarce at Didlington, and what was of even more 

 importance, the ground over which hawks could be followed 

 had become very circumscribed, owing to the breaking up of 

 the heath land and bringing it under the plough. Hence it 

 occurred to the members of the club that they might find 

 better sport further a-field, and instead of bringing their hawks 

 from Holland over to England to fly at a quarry becoming 

 more and more scarce, they might go over to Holland to their 

 hawks, and in that country turn them to better advantage. A 

 prospecting party was formed of Mr. Stuart Wortley and the 

 Baron d Offemont, with the result that in 1839 the Loo Hawk- 

 ing Club was? formed. Mr. E. C. Newcome, of Feltwell, who 



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