1870] MR. C. W. JERVIS-SMITH. 297 



On the 20th they ran round Chartley, through 

 Birchwood Park and Draycott Woods, and killed after 

 an hour's run, part very fast, in the open at Heybridge. 



On April 6th the Atherstone had a day in Bagot's 

 Woods, and killed a vixen, much to Tom Leedham's dis- 

 gust, as has been mentioned before. 



At the Uttoxeter steeplechases, at the end of March, 

 Captain Goodwin had a severe fall, and was taken to Mr. 

 Fox's house at Woodgate, not being able to go home till 

 next day. 



In 1870 Mr. C. W. Jervis-Smith came with his father 

 to reside at Clifton Hall, but it was not till the death of 

 the latter, in 1875, that he began hunting regularly with 

 the Meynell. His father, when he lived at Elmhurst, 

 near Lichfield, was one of the first subscribers to Mr. 

 Meynell's hounds when he first began to hunt the country 

 in 1816. The son is not only very fond of hunting, but 

 is also a capital shot and a good fisherman. For shooting 

 and fishing he goes every year to his moor in Scotland, 

 and some good heads, and the model of a salmon, 

 killed in the Namsen river, which turned the scale at 

 thirty-eight pounds, are to be seen at Brocksford Hall, 

 which he built in 1893. He also planted a gorse not far 

 from the house, which is a pretty sure find. In 1877 he 

 married the daughter of the Rev. E. Baskerville Mynors, 

 then rector of Ashley, Wilts. She came with a great 

 hunting reputation from the Duke's country, which she 

 amply sustained, when she was one of the four or five 

 ladies who came out with the Meynell. 



Their only son, Mr. Reginald Smith, is in the Cold- 

 stream Guards, and is, at the present moment, serving 

 with them in South Africa, whither he was ordered out 

 directly he joined. 



It is interesting to note that the oak panelling 

 and staircase at Brocksford came from Mr. Jervis-Smith's 

 house, Fenton Hall, near Stoke-on-Trent, which has be- 

 longed to his family for many generations. 



The opening day was on October 31st, and the Master 



