340 MEMOIR OF 



Grey, the famous Northumberland sportsman 

 and rider, now Master of the Glendale, were 

 invited by Mr. Pennell-Ehiihirst to meet him 

 at dinner. 



Talking of foxhounds, Mr. Grey asked Russell 

 if he thought the foxhound was " a distinct 

 species of dog from the first." 



"Did he, in fact, come out of the ark?" 

 explained Lord Carington. 



"How could he?" returned Russell; "did 

 not a brace of foxes come out alive ? " 



On Wednesday, the 5th, he joined the 

 Belvoir hounds at Croxton Park, hunting that 

 day upon wheels. 



Thursday he devoted to travelling westward, 

 and reaching Bath that evening, he managed 

 to see the Duke of Beaufort's hounds find a 

 fox next morning near Cross Hands ; after 

 which meet he started for home, intending to 

 wind up the week by hunting with Lord Ports- 

 mouth's hounds the next day. 



In 1 88 1, a month or so before the Ascot week. 

 Colonel J. Anstruther Thomson conceived the 

 happy idea of bringing together under his own 

 roof tw^o kindred spirits, both old friends of his 

 own, but living widely apart and hitherto per- 

 sonally unacquainted with each other. They 

 were the Rev. John Russell and Mr. John 

 Whyte-Melville, Master of the Fife Hounds in 

 the early part of this century, and father of the 



