1884] CAPTAIN HOLLAND. 121 



fair share of active service — in 1879-80 in the Afghan 

 war, in 1881 against the Boers, and again in 1882 in the 

 Egyptian campaign, in which he was severely wounded. 

 He would have been a cavalry officer after the Duke of 

 Wellington's own heart, for that great commander said 

 that hunting men made the best, and Captain Holland has 

 never let the grass grow under his feet in this respect. 

 He has hunted with no end of different packs, including 

 the Calpe and Pan hounds, but still the Meyneil have 

 never failed to hold his affections. Half a season or so in 

 Yorkshire was enough for him in recent years, and back he 

 came to his old love, to which he has remained constant 

 ever since, with the exception of one year, 1891-92, when 

 he and Mrs. Holland went round the world, having a turn 

 at big game shooting in Assam, in company with Sir Peter 

 Walker, the late Hon. Sidney Parker, and Mr. Firman — by 

 no means the least enjoyable part of the trip. 



Between the flags, too, and in point-to-point races he 

 had a fair measure of success, winning the Meyneil Hunt 

 Point-to-Point, which finished at Sutton, on Grey Heron, 

 in March, 1891. Nine started. The next year he was 

 second on him over the severe course, which finished at 

 Tomlinson's corner, when so many came to grief. Sir Peter 

 Walker's mare, ridden by Mr. W. H. Walker, which he 

 had beaten the year before, turned the tables on him this 

 time, but it is a question whether it ought to have been 

 so. He also won the Natal Grand Military Steeplechase 

 on Sir Garnet, a Cape horse, beating the late Lord St. 

 Vincent (afterwards killed in Egypt) by a short head, and 

 he was riding a hot favourite, an English thoroughbred 

 horse. There is no better heavy-weight in the Meyneil 

 country to-day than Captain Holland. A propos of horses, 

 most people think that Jumbo, who carried him so well 

 from 1887-91, and the above-mentioned Grey Heron, were 

 his best. But the keen, hard-pulling chestnut, Bolivar, is 

 also a champion amongst weight-carriers, while the dun 

 horse, Don Juan, for which Mr. Fort gave something like 

 two hundred and fifty guineas, was very bad to beat. On 



