1838] LEAMINGTON. 135 



Leamiiiiifton, which in Mr. Corbet's time was only a 

 vilhige, had now become a great hunting centre, and its 

 rise was no (hjubt in a great measure owing to its fine 

 mineral waters. Copp's Hotel anus for many years the 

 ])rincipal resort of hunting men, although the greater 

 part of the meets of the Warwickshire hounds were a 

 considerable distance from Leamington. In a diary which 

 we have seen, written by Lord Mountgarret, he speaks of 

 hunting regularly on a Tuesday in the Mitford Bridge 

 country, and on Friday above Edge Hill, with more than 

 twenty miles to ride to covert and on Wednesday he rode 

 as far to meet the Pytchley hoiyids before the railway 

 could assist him, and no doubt many sportsmen had often 

 thirty miles to ride home after hunting with the AVarwick- 

 shire hounds. Amongst those who hunted there in 1886 

 were Lord Eastnor, Sir E. Mostyn, Mr. M. Wise, Capt. 

 Laint, Lord Howth, Lord Ongley, Capt. Sanderson, 

 Capt. Magennis,* Lord W. Lennox, Lord Dillon, Capt. 

 Fairley, Lord Cranstoun, Mr. Vaughan, Lord Hopetonn, 

 Capt. Montgomery, Sir J. Hanmer, Mr. MoUineux, Sir A. 

 Brooke, Mr. Bicardo, Capt. Ongley, Mr. W. Beaumont, 

 Sir P. Payne, Capt. Mostyn, Sir D. Baird, Sir H. Titch- 

 borne, Lord Boss, Capt. Grant, Capt. Burgess, Mr. 

 Fazakerl^v, Mr. Beaumont, ]\L'. Bradley, t Sir John 

 (ierard, Mr. Boycott, tic. 



A club was started by Lord Eastnor at Copp's Hotel, 

 which in its early days was very successful, and the hotel 

 itself was fitted up at enormous expense. Owing to the 

 medicinal ])roj)erties which existed in the mineral springs, 

 the population largely increased, having risen from 543 in 

 1811 to 12,864 in 1841, and in 1851 to 15,724. Li 1834 

 Ml-. IJobert Vyner, of Eathorpe, established a pack of 

 hounds to hunt part of North Warwickshire. T)ui*ing his 

 first season he resided at Solihull, where he had about 



* Captain Magennis rode regularly to hounds with only one arm. 



t Mr. Bradley was a very liberal supporter of the chase, and he kept a pack of 

 hounds, which were used as harriers, and sometimes hunted a stag. He had kennels 

 at Leamington ^see " Cecil," p. 319, 1854 Ed.], but he afterwards removed his pack 

 to near Soutliam. 



