248 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 



Then came a year of foreign travel. In the next year, 

 1845, there were but two days' hunting on horses of that 

 good sportsman, Mr. George Moore of Appleby, and then 

 he was off on November 20th for Ceylon. There he went 

 up Mount Adam, furnished with a sandwich and a bottle 

 of Bass, which he drank, and left the bottle on the top. 

 Most people went up it supplied with provisions enough 

 for a week. 



In 1846 he was back again and making up for lost 

 time by hunting with the Meynell, the Donington, the 

 Atherstone, and the Quorn. He mentions Mr. F. Wilmot 

 getting a bad fall over a stile at Dale Hills, when the 

 Donington hounds met at Hopwell. 



On December 10th, when the Meynell were at 

 Eadburne, there is this severe comment : " N.B. — with a 

 huntsman we should have had a run." 



In 1848 he hurt his side, had to give up hunting on 

 March 10th, and lost a lot of good sport, it being a wet 

 month, and in 1849 he went abroad with Mr. Colvile, 

 having a day with the Gibraltar garrison hounds on 

 December 15th, which he describes as " hunting all gammon, 

 but a good object for a ride." One day with the Meynell 

 must be quoted from the diary, and then it will be neces- 

 sary to leave it, though with regret, for want of space. 



December 5th, 1850, Eadburne.— Fomidi in Pond Cover, ran a ring to Langley 

 Gorse and lost. I got in the brook directly and saw nothing. Baron (his horse) 

 bogged. Found again in Parson's Gorse and went away very fast, and ran very 

 hard to Brailsford and then slower to Meynell's at Langley, when tliey set to again 

 as hard as ever, running for their fox over the grass nearly to Bowbridge, and by 

 Mack worth Town End, and pulled him down opposite Kedleston Park palings. 

 Fifty minutes. No check, only slow on plough. All field beat off from Langley 

 except H. Meynell, and five others, but let in at death, hounds turning back to 

 them. Capital scent and brilliant run. Forster, Bromley, and FitzHerbert out. 

 Colonel carried H. Wilmot very well. Last ten minutes beautiful. 



Two years after this he married Sarah Louisa, second 

 daughter of the late Sir Eichard Sutton, Bart., with 

 w^hose hounds he hunted frequently, living at Woodhouse 

 Eaves in Leicestershire. In 1853 he was left a widower. 

 In 1857 he and Lord Stanhope were the Conservative 

 candidates for South Derbyshire, but both of them were 



