182 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



LORD BERKELEY PAGET — A BRETBY DAY — CHARLES AND 



LORD SOUTHAMPTON DAY ON CANNOCK CHACE — 



CAPTAIN DAWSON — MR. H. F. MEYNELL INGRAM'S DIARY 

 ASHBOURNE HALL. 



1859. 



" I REMEMBER seeing the famous Lord Anglesey ride his 

 hack at that pace (a canter) nineteen times out of 

 Piccadilly into Albemarle Street before it turned the 

 corner exactly to his mind. The handsome old warrior, 

 who looked no less distinguished than he ivas, had, as we 

 know, a cork leg, and its oscillation no doubt interfered 

 with those niceties of horsemanship in which he delighted. 

 Nevertheless, at the twentieth trial he succeeded, and a 

 large crowd, collected to watch him, seemed glad of an 

 opportunity to give their Waterloo hero a hearty cheer 

 as he rode away." So wrote Whyte Melville in his 

 " Riding Recollections." This was the grandfather of 

 the nobleman whose name heads this page, so it looks as 

 if the grandson inherited that horsemanship for which 

 he became so famous. Of him Sir Richard FitzHerbert, 

 whose opinion is worth having, always says, " He was 

 quite one of the quickest men to hounds I ever saw." 

 But perhaps the best criterion of the estimation in which 

 he was held by his contemporaries is this. If you ask 

 them who were the best men with the Meynell in their 

 day, the combination of names may, and often does, vary, 

 but one name invariably occurs in it, and that is Lord 

 Berkeley Paget's. The following is a rough outline of 

 his career, and it is worth noticing that he began really to 



