“The Master of Hounds”,University of Virginia Special Collections,Thursday

Westmoreland Davis, "The Master of Hounds," poses in hunting regalia for the January 1938 cover of the Southern Planter, an agricultural monthly Davis purchased in 1912. An enthusiastic foxhunter at Morven Park, his country estate in Loudoun County, Davis served as a Master of Foxhounds, the person charged with maintaining the kennels and operating the hunts.

Citation: Westmoreland Davis Photographs, 1919–1921, 1938–1940, n.d., Accession #6560-d. Special Collections, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.