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Cattistock

The Cattistock Hunt is a foxhound pack established by a parson at Cattistock Lodge in the mid 18th century.

Asthall Manor

The Mitfords were great socialites, and Asthall hosted frequent hunting and shooting weekend parties, regular guests included Clementine Churchill, Frederick Lindemann and Walter Sickert.

Caroline Earle White

The WPSPCA also advocated against blood sports such as; fighting dogs and roosters, animal baiting (tethering an animal and allowing other animals to attack), gander pulling (riders on horseback attempt to decapitate a bird that has been greased and poised), pigeon shoots, and fox hunts.

Chapel Brampton

The (Red) Earl Spencer broke the neck of his favourite horse, Merry Tom, whilst out fox hunting and trying to jump the narrow River Nene.

Hanstead Stud

The women bred livestock (Aberdeen Angus and Jersey cattle) and horses, including Suffolk Punches (large draught horses, still used to work the land, until tractors became widespread) and Thoroughbreds (a breed used for fox hunting as well as flat racing and steeplechases).

Lionel Sadleir-Jackson

He pursued his interests during his retirement, being a keen huntsman and big game hunter as well as an excellent polo player (in 1910 he co-wrote Hints on Polo Combination, with Walter Buckmaster).

Mary Colvin

She hunted with the Blackmore Vale and lent her indoor riding school to the Rutland club (which did not have its own premises).

Sir Anthony Nutting, 3rd Baronet

In his later years, still a political outcast, he divided his time between writing biographies and histories in London, fox hunting in Shropshire, and farming at Achentoul in Scotland.

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Delaplane, Virginia

In addition to fox hunting, Delaplane's close proximity to Washington, D.C. juxtaposed with a remarkably well preserved 19th century agricultural heritage, gave rise to numerous and expansive country estates; many of which are listed on the National Register of Historic Places such as Mount Bleak House, Moreland, and Oak Hill, an early home of John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States.

History of Leicestershire

Hugo Meynell of Quorn, Master of the Quorn Hunt 1753–1800, is known as the father of fox hunting.

Lily Elsie

In 1920, Elsie moved with her husband to the Gloucestershire village of Redmarley D'Abitot, spending ten more years away from the stage, which she had always found stressful, and enjoying social events and fox hunting.

Montreal Hunt

Under the dynamic leadership of Captain Edmund Campbell of Manoir Rouville-Campbell (son of Thomas Edmund Campbell and son-in-law of Sir Hugh Allan), Ross Hutchins and especially Baron Alfred Baumgarten, new foxhounds were imported from Ireland and British rules for fox hunting were imposed.