360 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1874 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



LORD WATERPARK's DIARY — MR. GODFREY MEYNELL — 

 CAPITAL OPENING WEEK — A FORTNIGHT'S FROST — 

 CAPITAL RUN TO BRAILSFORD GORSE — ROUGH WEATHER 

 — A BAD MARCH. 



1874-1875. 



The subscription was £3781 105. Sd. Compensation 

 amounted to £124 15^. 6d. There was no change in 

 either the staff or the committee. With regard to the 

 hounds, it is evident that Lord Yarborough's strain was 

 in the ascendant, for the only three sires from other 

 kennels are his. In the previous year the whole entry 

 was by home-bred sires. 



The new arrivals in the country were Mr. Alexander, 

 the great racing man, who took Wichnor, and whose 

 daughters also came out hunting, and rode well. Lord 

 Churston, who had taken Brook House, Marchington ; 

 Lord Petersham (now the Earl of Harrington), whose 

 sisters. Lady Jane and Lady Fanny Stanhope, also hunted 

 regularly from Elvaston ; Lord Harrington, a wonderful 

 man to hounds and a thorough sportsman, belongs more 

 properly to the South Notts hunt. Previous to this year 

 there were but four or five ladies out hunting, one of the 

 principal of these being the Hon. Mrs. Col vile, of whom 

 an old sportsman writes : "In connection with my early 

 acquaintance with the Meynell hounds Mrs. Colvile's form 

 appears. I may put her down as the most successful 



