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Hunting, sporting and gaming
The staghounds and harthounds

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Institute of Historical Research

Publication

Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660-1837

Author

R.O. Bucholz

Year published

2006

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Abbreviations

Pages

215-216

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'Hunting, sporting and gaming: The staghounds and harthounds', Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660-1837 (2006), pp. 215-216. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43815 Date accessed: 23 May 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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Contents

Master of the Staghounds 1738–82
Sergeant of the Harthounds 1661–?1685 Footnotes

Master of the Staghounds 1738–82

This office was in the gift of the Crown. Appointments were made by warrant under sign manual. The salary was fixed at £1,600 in 1738 and at £800 in 1744. (fn. 1) The office was abolished in 1782. (fn. 2)

1738 22 Mar. Kingston, 2nd Duke of
1744 26 Apr. Manners Sutton, Lord R.
1762 19 Nov. Office vacant
1763 19 Dec. Byron, 5th Lord
1765 2 Aug. Galway, 2nd Viscount
1770 5 July Essex, 4th Earl of

Sergeant of the Harthounds 1661–?1685

1661 3 May Walden, I.

Footnotes

1 CTBP 1735–8, p. 626; CTBP 1742–5, p. 647.
2 22 Geo. III, c. 82.