Property boom

The English squire first drove the poorer Scotch one out of the market & he, in his turn, has been superseded by millionaires from London, Manchester & America. Incredible prices are given by the latter for all our first class forests & shootings

Colquhoun: Sporting Days 1866

A considerate husband

I have been visiting a great rifle man & was almost tempted to order one, the price of an efficient one being £70! I have rather satisfied myself that this would be an unwarrantable piece of selfishness

Gladstone to His Wife 1853

The art of shooting

Captain Townshend started from England for the far West with a brother officer & a complete hunters equipment. He was away 5 months in all, & during that time he shot buffaloes, elks, antelopes, several varieties of deer, wolves, beavers, wild turkeys, prairie hens & many other birds which it would be tedious to enumerate. The guns, the accoutrements, & all the further requirements for this & other kinds of sport are rather too shortly described in Captain Townshends volume


The Spectator review of Ten Thousand Miles of Travel, Sport & Adventure by F Trench Townshend BA, Captain 2nd Life Guards: 1869

Mr Preston's sporting prowess procured him admission into much higher society than he was otherwise entitled to enter. He was a capital cricketer; was so good a shot, that any house desirous of reputation for its bags on the 12th or the 1st, was glad to have him for a guest

Mrs Gaskell: Wives & Daughters