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sporting farmer. There is an extraordinary personal 

 resemblance between Mr. Errington and Lord Chester- 

 field. In the poem of "The Meltonians" thej are 

 called " the Dromios of our Hunt/' — so like, 

 " That hang me if I know wliich 'tis I see, 

 Till smiles assure me, Errington, 'tis thee." 



Lord Suffield, 1838 to 1839.— Z)fgc^ 1853. 



Lord Suffield bought Mr. Ealph Lambton's celebrated 

 pack of hounds for .£3000, to bring to Leicestershire, but 

 they were daunted by the crowd, and did not understand 

 being ridden over, and consequently caused some disap- 

 pointment. Lord Suffield unfortunately got into 

 pecuniary difficulties, which resulted in the hounds and 

 horses being seized by bailiffs, while on the way to meet 

 at Lodge-on-the- Wolds. His lordship only hunted the 

 Quorn country one season, and was succeeded by 



Mr. Tom Hodgson, 1839 to IMl.— Died 1863. 



Mr. Hodgson always hunted in a brown coat and 

 broad-brimmed hat, which gave rise to an amusing 

 incident, recorded in the Si^orting Magazine of 1841. 

 " The story runs, that when in the act of pulling down 

 a fence near Seagrave, he was collared by a farmer, and 

 ordered to desist. Mr. Hodgson stripped directly, and 

 his enormous length quite astonished his antagonist, a 

 fat, good-tempered, punchy fellow. ' Dang it, I do'ant 

 want to fight thee, only ride over the country, and get 

 over the fences like a man j don't make gaps one could 

 drive a broad-wheeled wagon thro'.' The fact was, the 

 farmer did not know Mr. Hodgson, and subsequently 

 excused himself on the impossibility of a Leicestershire 

 man thinking that a person in a brown coat, whom he 

 never saw ride at a fence, could be Master of the 

 Quorn Hounds." 



