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 . e can be said tohave established themselves as classics in the literatureof sport: Peter Beckford, with whom I have alreadydealt, R. T. Vyner, author of Notitia Venatica, andthe subject of my present sketch, whose admirabletreatise on The Noble Science will always commandreaders, if only for its entertaining style. Indeed, MrDelm6-Radcliffe might well stand for the representativetype of The Sportsman as
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 . e can be said tohave established themselves as classics in the literatureof sport: Peter Beckford, with whom I have alreadydealt, R. T. Vyner, author of Notitia Venatica, andthe subject of my present sketch, whose admirabletreatise on The Noble Science will always commandreaders, if only for its entertaining style. Indeed, MrDelm6-Radcliffe might well stand for the representativetype of The Sportsman as Man of Letters. Frederick Peter Delme-Radcliffe, born in 1804, cameof an ancient family claiming descent from RichardRadcliffe, of the Tower, near Bury, in Lancashire, whowas a person of note in the time of Edward the First,and distinguished himself at the battle of Crecy. Thepresent family seat, Hitchin Priory, was granted byHenry the Eighth to Sir Ralph Radcliffe, on the ex-pulsion of the White Carmelites, what time Bluff Harry broke into the spenceAnd turned the cowls adrift. The Delmds became united with the Radcliffes, andthe two names were conjoined, in the last century, when .1^.
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