Pau Hunt

The Pau Hunt was established in 1842 by the Société d’Encouragement as a spectacle authorized by the government of Louis Philippe to hunt predatory animals such as wolves and foxes.

Its country, between Gardères and the hills surrounding Pau was nicknamed “Leicestershire in France”.

[4][5] They organized the capture of game and its later release at meets as early as the 1850s, cross country matches and point-to-point races in the 1890s.

[b] Continuing its tradition of drag hunting, meets are held in unplanted fields with the expressed permission of amiable property owners.

[8] A plethora of private photos, articles, publications, photos and works of art during its heyday are housed in private collections, including the collection of the English Club of Pau.

Allen Culpepper Sealy, 1850 - 1927, The Pau Hunt, Master Charles Henry Ridgway, 1907, Oil on canvas, les collections du Cercle Anglais, with (generally left to right) Ted Parker, Richard Ridgway, Walter Smethurst, Mrs. Joseph Barron (Jeanie Hutton), Charles Jackson Morse, Miss Annie Hutton, Ethel Morgan, Charles Henry Ridgway, Comte de Lesterps, William Forbes Morgan, Baron de Waldner, Butler Brooke, Baron de Palaminy, Miss Platt, Princess Volconsky, Sydney Platt, Vicomtesse Werlé, Miss Elizabeth Schmerhorn Potter, Thomas Burgess, John Harvey Wright, Herbert Thorn King, James Bagnell, Mr. Cramail, Harry Hutton, Frederick H. Prince, J. Yturbe, Hubert de Ganay, Duc de Brissac, William Knapp Thorn, Jr., Vicomte d'Elva, Miss Hubert, Baron Henri de Vaufreland, Henrietta Neilson Potter, Joseph “Pito” Barron, Comte R. d’Astorg, Martha Church Otis, Charles de Salverte, Commandant Dolfus, Ferdinand Roy, Mrs. William Forbes Morgan (Ellie Robinson), John Nugent, Comtesse de Ganay (Emily Ridgway), Mrs. Charles Henry Ridgway (Ellen Monroe), M. Larregain, M. Nozaret, Mat Townsend, Mrs. Harry Hutton (Mary “May Kip Kane), Maurice Bernard
Allen Culpepper Sealy , 1850 - 1927, The Pau Hunt, Master Charles Henry Ridgway, 1907, English Club of Pau Collection