Tom Yandle

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Tom Yandle (Thomas Andrew Heath Yandle) (born 1935) of Riphay, Brushford, near Dulverton in Somerset, England, is a farmer and chairman of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds and was High Sheriff of Somerset in 1999 and a committee member of both the National Trust and Exmoor National Park. He played a leading role in challenging both the National Trust's decision to ban stag hunting on the Holnicote Estate and the Labour government's ultimately successful proposal to ban hunting with hounds.[1] The Yandle family was previously resident at nearby Duvale an historic estate in the parish of Bampton, Devon.[1] In 1994 he purchased Northmoor House near Dulverton, and 100 acres of surrounding land, which he later sold.[2]

He wrote:

As my father had a puritanical fear and dislike of drinking and pubs I never visited the Carnarvon Arms[3] until after he died, but later I discovered that he had met my mother in the bar there and had frequented the hotel for 30 years. He was then 54 years old and my mother 24.[4] and: My grandfather, a tenant of the Carnarvons[5] all his life, told his four sons: 'Always keep ahead of your station. Better to be a good farmer than a little poor gentleman, and a good workman than a little poor farmer.

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  1. ^ a b "Exmoor Oral History Archive, Somerset County Archive & Record Service". www1.somerset.gov.uk. Somerset County Council. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2018-03-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2016-11-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ A famous sporting hotel at Brushford
  4. ^ Spectator Magazine, 23 October 1999, Page 53[1]
  5. ^ Earls of Carnarvon, seated at Pixton Park, Dulverton
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