SPORTING PARSONS.
The mention of Jack Rus^l last week has brought me aa account of another sporting parson, the H**. Charier MVssop, rector of Eton. Northamptonshire, who died lately at the ripe old age of 89; He followed the FitaWilliam hbuntis, hunted by the veteran master, Toth> Seabright, famoqs in Flood and Field. Many a week-day marriage he celebrated, and more solemn services too, with his surplice orer his boots and breeches. Of his hunting the straightlaced complained, but • as an old whipper-in said oo the other side :--•• Where could a man's Christianity shine brighter than in the hunting field If a man got a cropper there was the parson nrst up to administer religious consolation and medical comforts from bis silver flask.*' My informant says that when a beloved friend of his, had by. doctor's orders to be removed some fifty miles, and she was too frail to bear a railway journey, the rector's beautiful close carriage and pair were sent for her use with* out any fuss or ostention- My friaud asks me to point a moral ou behalf of the sporting parsons, but surely suob a fact, carries its moral on its face!
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4537, 20 July 1883, Page 2
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196SPORTING PARSONS. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4537, 20 July 1883, Page 2
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