Kings of the Hunting-Field - Memoirs and Anecdotes of Distinguished Masters of Hounds and other Celebrities of the Chase with Histories of Famous Packs, and Hunting Traditions of Great Houses

Thormanby

• Publisher: Read Country Books
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473342002
• Print ISBN:
  9781473332126

This is a fascinating work, originally published in 1899 contains a collection of biographies and brilliantly entertaining anecdotes from the cream of the hunting elite in the United Kingdom during the Victorian period. Chapters include: The Fathers of Foxhunting, John Peel, Lord Forester, 'Nimrod' (Charles James Apperley), The Dukes of Rutland, George Lane Fox and The Masters of the Devon and Somerset, just to name a few. This fine work is still of great value and would be a wonderful addition to the historian of foxhunting. This work is being republished with a brand new introductory essay on Fox hunting.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Fox Hunting
• Preface
• Contents
• The Fathers of Fox-Hunting
• Peter Beckford
• The Fitzhardinges
• Squire Forester and Tom Moody
• John Peel
• Hugo Meynell
• The Earls of Yarborough
• Thomas Assheton Smith
• John Mytton
• Lord Forester
• Jack Musters
• The Dukes of Beaufort
• Captain John White
• The Earl of Wilton
• ‘Nimrod’ (Charles James Apperley)
• ‘The Other Tom Smith’
• Masters of the Royal Buckhounds
• George Osbaldeston
• The Earl of Cardigan
• Frederick P. Delmé-Radcliffe
• The Fitzwilliams
• Colonel Anstruther Thomson
• The Old Squire of Dorset (J. J. Farquharson)
• The Dukes of Rutland
• ‘The Druid’ (H. H. Dixon)
• The Rev. John Russell
• The Wynns of Wynnstay
• The Earls Spencer
• George Lane Fox
• The Family of Villebois
• Masters of the Meath
• Major Whyte-Melville
• The Earls of Lonsdale
• Masters of the Devon and Somerset
• Index