1 8 THE QUORN HUNT. 



sary qualifications of a foxhound, not for- 

 getting the value of stoutness, and duly 

 appreciating pedigrees. One of his first 

 celebrities was Tarquin, bred by Lord 

 Monson, whose pack he purchased In 1810, 

 when he commenced his brilliant career as 

 M. F. H., in Lincolnshire. Tarquin was 

 entered by " The Squire," and taken to 

 Quorn, where he died in 18 18. The 

 kennel yard was his burial place, and 

 an epitaph was inscribed to his memory, 

 which is now effaced, but the spot Is Iden- 

 tified by a drinking trough. The blood of 

 his favourite hounds. Rocket and Furrier, 

 though half a century has passed away 

 since they were entered, is to be traced in 

 all fashionable kennels. Indeed, there 

 are very few hounds of great celebrity 

 which do not run back to both of them, 

 but more especially to Furrier, whose birth- 

 place was Belvoir. 



Lord Southampton, who succeeded ''The 

 Squire" in 1827, built new kennels at Lei- 

 cester, and, instead of the ancient title of 

 the Quorn Hunt being continued, it was 



