LORD TREDEGAR’S.

“THE MEET”

LORD TREDEGAR’S FOXHOUNDS.

For a very long time there has been a pack of Hounds kept at Ruperra or at Tredegar. About 1722 SIR WILLIAM MORGAN had a large hunting establishment at Tredegar. Eventually it became a trencher fed pack, and joined with the neighbouring packs. The late LORD TREDEGAR, about 1820, turned it into a pack of Harriers, till the present LORD TREDEGAR again converted the pack into Foxhounds, about 1870. Retaining a good deal of the old Welsh breed, they have also a strong dash of the old Llangibbry, Gogerddan, and Llanharran blood in them.

LORD TREDEGAR’S brother, COLONEL THE HON. FRED C. MORGAN, of Ruperra, now hunts the Hounds, and though the foxes are mostly of the old wild mountain sort, a good account is given of them. With the dash of old Welsh blood, these Hounds retain the fine full music of the Welsh Hound, which, in the mountainous parts of the country, where Hounds are often lost to sight amongst the hills and dells, is a very requisite quality to possess.

A few years ago the followers of the “Tredegar” Hounds presented to LORD TREDEGAR, as a mark of their esteem and gratitude, a large equestrian portrait of himself, with his old huntsman, and with Hounds around them. This was presented at Tredegar Park, ’midst great enthusiasm, and the occasion was immortalized by a Welsh bard, in verses, a copy of which I regret. I cannot, at the moment, lay my hand upon.

These Hounds are kept and hunted entirely at LORD TREDEGAR’S expense and the pack has no poultry fund.