282 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



THE OLD SQUIRE — THE MISSES MEYNELL INGRAM TOM 



LEEDHAM's broken leg — GREAT RUN TO TAMWORTH. 



1869-1870. 



This was the title by which Mr. Hugo Charles Meynell 

 Ingram was best known latterly for miles round Hoar 

 Cross, and it seemed to suit him. For he was a perfect 

 specimen of the type, living and dying amongst his own 

 people. One who knew him well wrote the following 

 notice of him : — 



The family of Meynell, or Mesnil, as it is spelt in the 

 older records, trace their lineage back to the Norman 

 period, and the members of this family have in successive 

 reigns held various important positions in the country. 

 They settled in Yorkshire and Derbyshire, where the family 

 place still bears the name of Meynell Langley. It is 

 with the Derbyshire branch that we have to do. 



Hugo Charles Meynell, the eldest son of Hugo 

 Meynell, Esq., and Elizabeth, third daughter and co- 

 heiress of Charles, ninth Viscount Irwine of Temple New- 

 sam in the county of York, came of a race of sportsmen, 

 his grandfather, Hugo Meynell, having been the celebrated 

 master of the Quorn, well known as " the father of fox- 

 hunting." 



Hugo Charles Meynell was born in 1784, and educated 

 at Harrow, where amongst other friendships he formed a 

 lasting one with a school-fellow who in later life, as Lord 

 Palmerston, played a prominent part in the history of the 

 nation. When quite a young man he also formed a 



