Identifier: surreyarchaeol43surr (find matches)
Title: Surrey archaeological collections
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Surrey Archaeological Society
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Publisher: Guildford (etc.)
Contributing Library: Surrey Archaeological Society
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Grove, Leatherhead, succeeded Arthur Onslow in 1812, and
he was followed for a couple of seasons by Mr. J. Barnard
Hankey, who seems to have been a stern Master, but he
showed first-rate sport and would never accept a subscrip-
tion from residents of less than £100. He retained the same
huntsman and whip as Arthur Onslow, namely, Mat Archer
and John Hyde, but the former was succeeded by George
Hennessey in 1817.
Boulton again became Master in 1822 and kept the hounds
till 1831, when he retired and Barnard Hankey took over the
hounds again until 1841, when he was succeeded by his son
G. Barnard Hankey and his son-in-law Colonel Holme Sumner
as joint Masters. In 1858 they were followed by Captain F.
Hankey. When he resigned there came a time of stress. No
one would take the hounds, and if it had not been for the
energy of Mr. W. H. Currie of West Horsley the pack might
have become extinct. At last Mr. Francis Scott, who had a
pack of harriers, was persuaded to take the hounds and ken-
nelled them at West Clandon. In 1876 another member of

PLATE IV
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facing page 10]

HUNTING IN SURREY. II

the Hankey family became Master (J. Barnard Hankey), who
continued as M.F.H. till 1892.
The third Surrey pack is of later formation. As the Surrey
Union in its early days was connected with the Onslows and
in its later history with the Hankeys, so the Chiddingfold is
connected throughout its history with the Sadlers of Pockford
and Cherfold.
Mr. William Sadler in the early days of the nineteenth cen-
tury kept a pack of harriers at Cherfold. He died in 1824
and his son James carried them on. This pack hunted foxes
on occasions and killed 10^1/2 brace in one season as there were
no regular foxhounds. But Mr. Napper, who had a pack of
foxhounds with kennels at Hold, occasionally hunted in what
is now the Chiddingfold country. It was in 1849 that he
had what is said to be the best run that has ever been known
in England. This claim has been made by many a pack, but
Mr. Nappers run was certainly a remarkable one and deserves
more than a passing record in a history of of Surrey Hunting.

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