Death of joint master of Barlow hunt
Senior joint-master of the Barlow hunt, Anne Wilson, has died following a fire at her farm in the Derbyshire village.
Fire broke out in the caravan where 89-year-old Miss Wilson lived on the afternoon of Friday, 17 April.
She was pulled from the blaze by a passerby, but died later in Chesterfield’s Royal Hospital.
Miss Wilson had been a master of the Barlow since 1988, following her sister Elsie in the mastership, and she was a past district commissioner of the Barlow Hunt branch of the Pony Club.
The Wilson family have been masters of the Barlow since 1878.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.