Chronology

1894

Established as the Loudoun County Hunt Club

1894

Hunted American hounds

1894

Kennels located in Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia

1905

Recognized by NSHA (Natl. Steeplechase and Hunt Assoc.)The NSA (National Steeplechase Association) was the NSHA. It dropped the "H" years after it had ceased to have a role with the hunts. The National Steeplechase and Hunt Association sanctioned many of the hunts prior to the birth of the MFHA in 1907 and continued to sanction activities after the inauguration of the MFHA. Many of the hunts had steeplechase meets and it may have been these hunt race meets that were being sanctioned primarily. Some of the early hunts were also sanctioned by other organizations, (for example, Meadow Brook was recognized by the American Hunt and Pony Racing Association in 1893 and by the Steeplechase, Hunt and Pony Racing Association in 1894. Recognized by NSHA in 1903, and country first recorded by MFHA in January 1920).

1906

Purchased the entire pack of the Piedmont

1906-1908

Country hunted by A. Henry Higginson's Middlesex Foxhounds on an alternating schedule with Loudoun Hunt

1906-1908

Kennels located at Westmoreland Davis's Morven Park according to A. Henry Higginson, whose Middlesex hounds were kenneled at Westmoreland Davis's Big Spring Farm

1906

Bought a small draft of American hounds from Mr. Bywaters of Culpeper

1906

Hounds were lent to the hunt by Mr. William Heflin, who had hunted the country for twenty five years with his private pack.

1908-1910

Country hunted five days per week by Harry Worcester Smith's Grafton Hounds on an alternating schedule with Loudoun Hunt

1912-1915

Hunted by Committee

1915

Purchased the dog hounds of the Middlesex

1922

Given up

1929

Re-established

1929

Re-recognized by NSHA

1929

Country recorded by MFHA

1930

Kennels located two miles south of Leesburg

1943-1946

Inactive

1945

Re-established

1946

Re-registered

1947

Re-recognized

1972-1994

Kennels located two miles south of Leesburg for the American pack and at Hillbrook Farm, Hamilton for the English pack.

1994

Hunt divided, with the pack kenneled at Hamilton designated Loudoun West

Huntsmen

1894-1905

David B. Tennant, MFH

1906-1908

Robert Dodd

1908-1910

Harry Worcester Smith, MFH

1910-1912

David B. Tennant, MFH

1915-1916

George Thorne

1915-1921

Sam Jenkins

1923-1934

Hunton F. Atwell 

1934-1935

Claude Hatcher

1935-1938

Asa Rusk

1938-1942

John Kincaid (hon.)

1948-1985

Hunton F. Atwell, MFH

1970-1989

Joseph M. Rogers, M.D., MFH

1984-1985

Richard Berliner (prof.)

1985-1990

Charles H. C. Wight (prof.)

1989-1994

Bay C. Cockburn (prof.)

1990-2001

Charles H. C. Wight, MFH

2000-2001

Michael E. Hoffman (hon.)

2001-2002

Richard N. S. Buswell (prof.)

2002

Joseph Cassidy (prof.)

2002

Michael E. Hoffman, MFH

2003

Michael E. Hoffman, MFH

Masters of Foxhounds

1894-1905

David B. Tennant

1905-1906

David B. Stevenson

1906-1906

William C. Eustis (acting)

1906-1908

Westmoreland Davis

1908-1910

Harry Worcester Smith

1910-1912

David B. Tennant

1912-1915

A Committee

1915-1922

Edwin B. McLean

1929-1933

David M. McDonald

1930-1933

Walter H. Bowes

1933-1936

William H. Lipscomb

1935-1936

Miss Nancy Rust

1936-1943

Judge J. R. H. Alexander

1941-1943

John F. Kincaid

1946-1962

Miss Anna F. Hedrick

1946-1985

Hunton F. Atwell

1962-1994

Joseph M. Rogers, M.D.

1970-1980

Anita L. Graf

1980-1991

Mrs. Anita Graf White

1990-present

Charles H. C. Wight

1994-2004

Mrs. Anita Graf White

2001-2003

Michael E. Hoffman