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John Funnell [6] who looked after the Hounds as a 'whipper-in' (a huntsman's assistant) before being succeeded by his third son, Edmund, pictured below. 

From 'Annals of Old Rottingdean' by Lucy Baldwin and Aurthur Ridsdale (grave [1]):

"Edmund was wonderful with Beagles. He carried the horn and a weeding spud, wore a smock and large gaiters which buttoned up to the thighs, on his hands furze gloves so he could face the gorse properly armed. He would cheer on his little pack well and had a good hunting voice, working hard, both at digging out rabbits and beating the bush with his scrub".

The 1881 census records John Funnell living at 75 Rottingdean High Street (a very small flint terraced house now part of Margot's Mews [view]) with his nine children between the ages of 2 and 20.