The Julian Marshall Award
Julian M. Marshall served as President of the Bryn Mawr Hound Show Association from 1983 through 1987, and as Honorary President from 1988 through 1999. After Mr. Marshall's death, his family inaugurated the award, which is presented at the Hound Show Association luncheon by Mr. Marshall's widow, Mrs. Tenny Marshall
A living individual is selected for this prestigeous annual honor based upon his or her lifetime contribution to hounds and hunting.
Most Recent Award Recipient
2011 - JOHN ("JAKE") CARLE, II, ex-MFH, Keswick Hunt, Keswick, VA
This year’s recipient of the Julian Marshall award is one of the most respected men in the American hunting world. He is also a legendary storyteller, but that’s another tale.
While Jake Carle is known today as an avid chronicler of and judge at hound shows, he started hunting early at the age of seven with the Keswick Hunt. He rode a ten hand pony and was encouraged to skip school by his father, since hunting was “part of his education”. He learned as well from his mother, who hunted her own pack, the Raynham Beagles. A pet squirrel eventually got him into trouble at boarding school. Not surprisingly, the University of Virginia took six years due to too much sport and too little study.
Jake was asked to join the mastership at Keswick in 1964. He retired in 2000 having served almost his entire tenure as the sole master. As for judging, he first stewarded in the basset ring at Bryn Mawr at the age of sixteen. In the early 1970s, the first major show at which he judged was also Bryn Mawr, where he has since judged various foxhound rings, beagles and the grand champion foxhound.
He currently serves on the boards of the Virginia Foxhound Club and the Museum of Hounds and Hunting. For many years he was the Virginia district representative for the MFHA. Nowadays he carries a camera and hunts on foot with Rappahannock County’s Thornton Hill Hounds and with Keswick. One of Jake’s great legacies, in fact, is the highly regarded Keswick pack of American hounds whose bloodlines he established.
Past Recipients of the Award:
2001 - John H. Richards, Jr., ex-MFH
2002 - George S. Hundt, ex-MFH
2003 - Benjamin H. Hardaway, III, MFH
2004 - Joseph B. Wiley, Jr., MBH
2005 - Nancy Penn Smith Hannum, ex-MFH
2006 - Henry N. Woolman, III, ex-MFH
2007 - Russell B. Clark, Honorary MFH
2008 - Robert H. Crompton, III, MFH
2009 - Frank Hastings Griffin, III, MFH
2010 - Nigel Peel, MFH