THE CHACE. 
Club, some time since broken up, is given in one of 
Nimrod's letters in the "Old Sporting Magazine" about 
ten years back: 
"The grand feature at Melton-Mowbray is the Old 
Club, which has been established about thirty-eight 
years, and owes its birth to the following circum- 
stances: Those distinguished sportsmen, the late Lord 
Forrester and Lord Delamere (then Messrs. Forrester 
and Cholmondeley), had been living for some years at 
Loughborough for the purpose of hunting with Mr. 
Meynell, and removed thence into Melton, where they 
took a house and were joined by the late Mr. Smythe 
Owen, of Condover Hall, Shropshire. As this house, 
now known as the Old Club House, only contains four 
best bed-rooms, its members are restricted to that 
number. But the following sportsmen have, at different 
periods, belonged to the club: The Hon. George 
Germaine ; Lords Alvanley and Brudenel ; the Hon. 
Joshua Vanneck, now Lord Huntingfield ; the Hon. 
Berkeley Craven ; the late Sir Robert Leighton ; the 
late Mr. Meyler ; Messrs. Brommell, Vansittart, Thomas 
Aysheton Smith, Lindow, Langston, Maxse, Maher, 
Moore, Sir James Musgrave, and the present Lord 
Forrester the four last-mentioned gentlemen forming 
the present club. There is something highly respectable 
in everything connected with the Melton Old Club. 
Not only is some of the best society in England to be 
met with in their circle, but the members have been 
remarkable for living together on terms of the strictest 
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