120 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1884 



CHAPTER IX. 



8P0RT IN THE EIGHTIES — CAPTAIN HOLLAND — GOOD RUN 

 FROM SHIRLEY PARK — MR. E. A. J. MAYNARD — GOOD 

 DAY FROM WALTON — THE GREEN COVERT AT EGGIN- 

 TON — MR. CHANDOS-POLe's PRIVATE PACK — MR. HAMAR 

 BASS BECOMES JOINT-MASTER. 



1884-1885. 



The subscriptions this year were £3410 18.s'., aud com- 

 pensations for damage absorbed X519 16s. i)d. 



There were no changes in the staff. Mr. Chandos-Pole 

 brought Downpatrick into the country. The new names 

 in the subscription list were Captain Ames (from Lichfield), 

 R. H. Dalton, E. Devas, W. F. Felton, Lord Henry 

 Nevill, F. W. Peacock, and Herbert Woltan. 



Captain and Mrs. H. C. Holland came to Marchington 

 Hall, where they stayed till 1895, with the exception of one 

 year, 1887-88, when they were at Cross Hayes, Hoar 

 Cross. From 1895-97 they lived at their own house, the 

 Upwoods, Doveridge, a farm which was purchased from 

 Lord Waterpark, and the house added to and improved. 

 In 1897, Captain Holland having been appointed Chief 

 Constable of Derbyshire, they moved to The Knoll, 

 Findern, Captain Lloyd of the First Life Guards and Mrs. 

 Lloyd coming to the Upwoods for two seasons. 



Captain Holland was educated at Eton and at Radley, 

 and began hunting as a boy with the North Cotswold, of 

 which his father was at one time IMaster. But Lord 

 Coventry was the first Master he remembers. He joined 

 the 8th, and subsequently the 15th Hussars, seeing his 



