DID YOU KNOW?
The celebrated hunting poet, George Whyte-Melville, responsible for H&HÕs strapline, “The best of my fun, I owe it to horse and hound”, broke his neck and died out hunting with the VWH in December 1878
HUNT HISTORY
EVERY big hunt’s history is, if you look closely enough, riddled with scandal. The modern hunting person seems to behave with exceptional moderation compared to our ancestors, who clearly had too much time on their hands. Take the reason that the VWH split into two packs — the VWH (Cirencester) and the VWH (Cricklade) — in the mid-1880s, for instance.
Charles Hoare, of the banking family, became master of the VWH in 1879. The kennels, in Cirencester Park, were owned by Earl Bathurst, and Hoare, along with his wife and…