Edgar Lubbock
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Edgar Lubbock was an English amateur footballer who twice won the FA Cup and played first-class cricket. He later became a partner in the Whitbread Brewery, a director and Deputy Governor of the Bank
Caricature of Mr Edgar Lubbock (1847–1907). "The Master of the Blankney". Published in Vanity Fair in 1906
Eton College cricket XI of 1866. Lubbock is seated in the centre of the middle row
Fox hunting
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Fox hunting is a sport involving the tracking, chase and, if caught, the killing of a fox, normally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds. A group of unarmed followers, led by a "maste
Edgar Lubbock
…Cup and played first-class cricket. He later became a partner in the Whitbread Brewery, a director and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and the Master of the Blankney Foxhounds. Lubbock was born in London, the tenth of eleven children of Sir John Lubbock (1803–1865), the former head of the Lubbock…
Master of foxhounds leads the field from Powderham Castle in Devon, England.
The Fox Hunt, Alexandre-François Desportes, France, 1720
The Rev. William Heathcote (1772–1802), on horseback (son of the 3rd Baronet); Sir William Heathcote of Hursley, 3rd Baronet (1746–1819), holding his horse and whip; and Major Vincent Hawkins Gilbert, M.F.H., holding a fox's head. The Heathcote's family seat was Hursley House. Daniel Gardner portrayed the three gentlemen on the hunt in 1790.
Lithograph. Tourism travel poster issued 1922–1959 (approximate)