. The Pytchley Hunt : past and present, its history from its foundation to the present day; with personal anecdotes, and memoirs of the masters and principal members; including the woodlands; also unpublished letters of Sir Head, bart.,. lways ready, at the time when ^ gate-moneymatches were almost unknown, to bear a portion ofthe expense of an important contest; and to him thepublic were indebted, in a great measure, for theinteresting match at Leicester in 1838, between theNorth and South of England, when Alfred Mynn got126 runs, and so injured his left leg in attempting tomake a new hi
. The Pytchley Hunt : past and present, its history from its foundation to the present day; with personal anecdotes, and memoirs of the masters and principal members; including the woodlands; also unpublished letters of Sir Head, bart.,. lways ready, at the time when ^ gate-moneymatches were almost unknown, to bear a portion ofthe expense of an important contest; and to him thepublic were indebted, in a great measure, for theinteresting match at Leicester in 1838, between theNorth and South of England, when Alfred Mynn got126 runs, and so injured his left leg in attempting tomake a new hit, known then as the CambridgePoke, that he was laid up for many weeks. To the great sorrow of all the county, before he hadquite reached his sixtieth year, Lord Spencer succumbedto a complaint which he had long known was incurable. Without at any time laying himself out for popularity,few men ever lived, who by his own intrinsic whole-heartedness had so won the respect and affection ofthose of whom he had himself formed a favourableopinion. So great indeed was the confidence heinspired in individuals, that in cases of difficulty, whenthe advice of a soundly-judging mind was required,he was the chosen one to whom the friend in trouble. Bi* CHAP. II.] Sir Charles Knightley, Master. 45 was tlie first to go. His liospitality was of that genialdescription which, while it included friends of his ownrank, did not leave out in the cold the neighbouringsquire or parson—indeed, he never seemed more happythan when his guests were those of his own neighbour-hood. After the resignation of Lord Althorp in 1817, into nohands more appropriate could the mastership of thehounds have fallen than into those of his friend, SirCharles Knightley, who by virtue of his keenness,knowledge of hunting, social position, and generalpopularity, was in every way suited to the horseman of the highest class, Sir Charles at notime had a superior in riding to hounds, and oneither of his famous thoro
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