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David Heathcoat-Amory speech at the Annual Dinner 2014

At the Cavalry and Guards Club the Rt Hon David Heathcoat Amory – a lifelong foxhunter from a great hunting family – spoke to the Society’s Annual Dinner. Here is the speech he gave.. R.S.Surtees – an appreciation on the 150th anniversary of his death I’m here because, like Jorrocks, I believe that, ‘all…

November 3, 2014EventsBy admin_rob

Two Bridges Hunt Club Dinner

The Chairman spoke on behalf of the Society at the 80th Anniversary of the ‘Two Bridges’ Hunt Club dinner on Dartmoor. This Club, brought into life at the invitation of the hunting men of the Royal Navy, celebrates the four packs there. By immemorial tradition they open their country to one another the following day.…

April 10, 2014GeneralBy admin_rob

Lord Charles Cecil’s Lecture at The Bowes Museum, 16th March 2014

‘“Clear the way then…” Surtees Crossing the Country’ Lecture to The R.S. Surtees Society Northern Tour The Bowes Museum 16th March 2014 In his speech at the Society’s Goose and Dumpling Dinner last night, Alistair Martin, our speaker, quoted the key phrase from Surtees’s Hawbuck Grange: “There are two things in this world that there…

March 18, 2014GeneralBy admin_rob

The 150th Anniversary Northern Trip

The 16th March was the 150th anniversary of RS Surtees’ death. In honour of that we asked the Masters of the Braes of Derwent, who hunt Surtees’ country, to bring hounds to Hamsterley Hall – his ancestral home – for a lawn meet. After a hunting breakfast at Auckland Castle we had a delightful woodland…

February 4, 2014EventsBy admin_rob