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"My Uncle, who was a French Sugar Planter in Jamaica, used to own a lovely pair of Purdey guns. Beautiful pieces. He purchased them in 1967 from the estate of an old friend, Capt. the Hon. Henry Scott McGrath, D.S.O., formerly of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, who was Custos of St. Catherine and who owned Charlemont Estate, a 4,500 acre Plantation in Jamaica. In those days weekend Shooting Parties for Quail, Duck and Wild Pigeon during "Bird Season" were very much part of British Colonial social life on the Plantations in Jamaica, complete with important weekend guests, shooting luncheons and armies of native beaters and "bird boys". I believe my Cousin still has the Purdeys at his Plantation in Belize."

-  Brett Ashmeade-Hawkins