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 . over fivedecades of this century was severed. Lord Wilton, thesometime Admirable Crichton, the best all-roundsportsman that England had seen since George Osbald-eston, was the last of that grand old school of which SirTatton Sykes, Lord George Bentinck, George Payne,General Peel, the Earl of Glasgow, and Admiral Rous,were such brilliant exemplars. But, distinguished as hewas in many branches of sport. L
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 . over fivedecades of this century was severed. Lord Wilton, thesometime Admirable Crichton, the best all-roundsportsman that England had seen since George Osbald-eston, was the last of that grand old school of which SirTatton Sykes, Lord George Bentinck, George Payne,General Peel, the Earl of Glasgow, and Admiral Rous,were such brilliant exemplars. But, distinguished as hewas in many branches of sport. Lord Wilton was greatestin the hunting-field, and for that reason he deserves ahigh place in the Valhalla of the Chase. The second son of the first Marquis of Westminster,by Eleanor, Lady Egerton, only surviving daughter ofthe first Earl of Wilton, the subject of my sketch wasborn at Millbank House, Westminster, on the 30th ofDecember 1799. He was sent to school at Westminster,and completed his studies at Christ Church, 1814, whilst he was yet a boy at school, he in-herited the title and estates of his maternal years later he took the name of Egerton, in place.
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