Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man · Character
The Master
The Master of the Potford Hunt, an authority whose word shapes the field and whose coverts are preserved with almost religious care.
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Also known as The Master, Master
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As a supporting figure in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, The Master is not background color—the story leans on what they do once the chapter opens.
The Master presides over the Potford Hunt, a figure of quiet authority in a world where the right to draw a covert is a matter of delicate negotiation. Around him cluster the sporting gentry, the Peppermore brothers, and the whole apparatus of the hunting calendar. His role matters because he embodies the order and ritual that give the narrator's youth its shape, a structure of tradition and deference that the coming War will make look unbearably fragile.
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Character groups
- Hunt leadership and family
- Protagonist
- Extended community and war associates
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