Image: Fifty years' fox-hunting with the Grafton and other packs of hounds (1900) (14598083178)

Description: Identifier: fiftyyearsfoxhun00elli (find matches) Title: Fifty years' fox-hunting with the Grafton and other packs of hounds Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Elliott, John Malsbury Kirby Elliott, Edward Kirby Subjects: Horses Fox hunting Foxhounds Publisher: London : H. Cox Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: ld kindly take office. A meeting for that purpose took place at Tow-cester. Mr. Samuel Ayers, of Potcote, proposed,and Messrs. Roper and Bartlett seconded, theresolution, and the people rejoiced in Mr. Douglas-Pennants acceptance of the office. The newMaster was soon at work in buying horses andmaking plans for carrying out his duties in a fittingmanner. A Poultry Fund was established at once, andhas been carried on up to the present time. Mr.Pennant first arranged a luncheon at the PuppyShow, which has been a great success in everyway. The Duke had left the hounds in excellentorder, and allowed them to occupy the kennels forsome years ; alas ! not for long in his Gracestime ; but the present Duke trod in his brotherssteps, and permitted them to remain until it wasfound quite too inconvenient to have the horsesstanding five miles away; so that after a fewyears it was decided to move the hounds. Mr. Robarts, a long and strong supporter ofthe hunt, put his shoulder to the wheel and soon Text Appearing After Image: George Sholto Douglas-PennantSecond Baron Penrhvn. Frank Beers Diaries. 163 bouofht land and built kennels. Good houses andstabling were erected by many supporters of thehunt, and the whole establishment shows that the■Grafton men know what they are about. Our new Master had the support of all thegentlemen and farmers transferred to him, with agood huntsman and whippers-in, and a capitalpack of hounds, and the record which follows willprove that his Mastership was a great success. It is due to the present Duke of Grafton tomention that he is a diligent preserver of foxes onhis large estates and in his numerous coverts ; and,although his Grace has retired from the hunting-field, a fine stud of hunters still occupies thosestables which have been so well furnished forgenerations. The FitzRoy family is ably repre-sented in the field by the Earl of Euston and LordAlfred FitzRoy. M 2 CHAPTER XII. FRANK BEERS DIARIES (Continued). 1882-83. In the year 1882, the Honourable George Douglas-Pen Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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