RONNIE WALLACE

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BORN: Rotherfield Hall, Kent, 1919

LIVED: Dulverton

RECORDING MADE: 2000

RECORDING LENGTH: 2 hours 4 minutes

Ronnie Wallace, or Captain Wallace as he is generally known, was Master of the Exmoor Foxhounds for 25 years and president of the MFHA. Single-minded about foxhunting from an early age, he became the greatest living authority on hounds and hound breeding. He travelled all over the world to judge them and, at the age of 80, thought nothing of going to Australia for a week.

He had a rare gift with hounds, inherited from his mother, and a reputation for thinking like a fox when out hunting. He says he learnt what to do by watching other people.

He was involved with the British Field Sports Society for over 40 years, on the European Committee of the Countryside Alliance and an active campaigner in support of hunting, both at home and abroad.

Ronnie Wallace died in February 2002.

Photograph by Mark J. Rattenbury