Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1914 — Father of Fox Hunting. [ARTICLE]

Father of Fox Hunting.

John Warde of Westerham is generally believed to have been the father of fox hunting. He was master of hounds for over half a century and then he sold his pack for the record price of 2,000 guineas. “This mighty hunter," writes Gibson Thompson, “died in 1838 at the ripd’ age of eigh-ty-six, at his house in Charles street, Berkeley square. One of the por traits of hizb at Squerries court, that by James Green, is in the dining-rfiom His favorite hounds were two, Glory and Beautjy; the picture shows ..him with but 6ne, and he is supposed to be soliloquizing: ‘My Beauty Eath departed. bilt my Glory remains.' **— London Cbrohida. <