The message
from John Cartmell contains these words:

You got any evidence at all to back your up your overheated imagination?

As I hadn't stated anything controversial I'm at a loss to see what you are
questioning. Such Hunts generally started following the Napoleonic
Wars (after
the Peninsular Campaign) and only really took off in the late 19th Century.
Foxes were thin on the ground at the turn of the 19th/20th Centuries
and Hunts
imported fresh foxes from Scandinavia to supply 'sport' - after the
example of
other Hunts who imported foxes into Spain and Australia for the same
purpose.
Hunts were generally dying out in the 20th century until revived by
new money
from the likes of retired pop musicians and others able to generate serious
sums of money quickly but needing to buy an 'acceptable' position in
society.


So where is your evidence that:

a) That there was very little fox hunting prior to the late 19th century.

b) That foxes were so thin on the ground circa 1900 that hunts in
general were importing foxes in bulk.

c) That fox hunting very nearly died out at that time and was only saved
by the said imports.

d) That fox hunting was dying out in the late 20th century before being
revived by new money.

c) That it was new money from social climbers that revitalised the sport.

--
Roger Chapman