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Mr Carr-Ellison took much interest in the ancient pastime of 

 Falconry. Between the years 1840 and 1843 he kept several 

 Peregrine Falcons with which he had excellent sport on his own 

 estates at Hedgeley, and with his neighbours flying the hawks 

 at partridges, pheasants, rooks, and wood-pigeons, and occa- 

 sionally at grouse and wild duck, and one Tiercel was very good 

 at snipe. Mr Carr-Ellison then went to reside at Dunston Hill 

 and gave up keeping hawks as they could not have been flown 

 with safety in that populous neighbourhood. But in 1855, while 

 again residing at Hedgeley, he once more took to Falconry, by 

 employing for a year with his hawks, the afterwards well known 

 Scotch falconer, Barr, then a young man, this being his first 

 engagement. 



Some of the older members of the Club may have had the rare 

 pleasure of being actual participators in some of these right royal 

 field sports, but to those who had not, the first paper Mr Carr- 

 Ellison wrote for the Club, of which this was the theme, may be 

 recommended as full of interest not only to sportsmen but to 

 naturalists. J- H. 



Some Reminiscences of Mr Carr-Ellison. By the Rev. 

 Canon Tristram, D.D., F.R.S., Durham. 



A DAY at Hedgeley, was the red-letter day of my boyhood. 

 An invitation from Mr Carr to go round the covers with him was 

 enough to make books and lessons mere holiday work during the 

 week of anticipation. I was but 8 years old when he first 

 settled at Hedgeley with his bride. Methinks I hear now those 

 soft, gentle tones, and see that quiet, winning manner of the 

 polished gentleman which won the heart, and at once set at ease 

 every one whom he addressed. lu an old woman or a child 

 alike he at once inspired confidence, and dispelled all sense of 

 their widely differing positions. 



I have often wondered since, how the man of culture and of 

 wide and varied learning could so completely win a boy's con- 

 fidence, and draw out questions on every subject, which it was 

 his delight to answer in such a way as to elicit further enquiries. 

 I never met any one who had in such a degree the power of 



