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CHAPTER X. 



THE JOINT MASTERSHIP OF THE " SQUIRE " AND MR. HAMAR 

 BASS, M.P. — G. S. L. ON THE HOUNDS — WONDERFUL RUN 

 OF FIVE HOURS — DEATH OF THE THIRD LORD BAGOT. 



1886-1887. 

 G. S. L. writes in the Field, of April, 1886 :— 



The opportunities to breed hounds were of the very best from the very out- 

 set of Mr. Meynell Ingram's career, as he could walii them in three counties — 

 on his extensive Yorkshire estates, on some property in Lincolnshire, and in 

 Staftbrdshire. He sent out at one time a hundred couples of puppies, and, as 

 may be supposed, the pack rose to a very high state of excellence. It was the 

 fashion years ago to talk of Meynell Ingram's blood, and Mr. Assheton Smith, 

 Mr. Farquharson, Mr. John Bulteel, Mr. Parry, and, at times, no less celebrated 

 kennels than the Belvoir and the Fitzwilliam, have dipped into the sort. At 

 one time they were thought to have been bred a bit close, but down to very 

 recent times indeed, their stud hounds have been in request, such as Manager, 

 Baronet, and Linkboy. I can remember being at a puppy show at the Worcester 

 kennels (I think it was in 1872), when the recently deceased Lord Hindlip, then 

 Mr. AUsopp, was the Master, and the Meynell Manager had just arrived as a 

 loan for stud duties, it being then said that he was one of the oldest of Mr. 

 Meynell Ingram's blood. Manager, entered in 1865, was by Merimac (son of 

 Reginald, son of Lord Scarborough's Reginald) — Timeful by Ravager — Thetis. 

 Harmony, the dam of Merimac, was by Falstaff, who was by the Brocklesby 

 Flasher — Hyacinth by Roman (son of Belvoir Rasselas and Nightshade) by 

 Nathan (son of Bertram by the Pytchley Abelard) — Bridesmaid by Bachelor, 

 son of Bachelor and Wilful, two hounds that Mr. Meynell had when he started 

 the country in 1816, and they were old hounds then, and presumably bred 

 from the drafts he had been having from Quorndon. I can trace two 

 direct lines from Manager to Bachelor and Wilful, and consequently I expect 

 it was this descent that was attributed to Manager on the day alluded to. 

 Since then, a lot of kennels have obtained the strain, as Manager had a son 

 called Linkboy, and the latter was quite a fashionable sire of the day. Old Jack 

 Morgan used him freely at the Grove, and in 1878 Lord Galway's entry con- 

 tained three couples by him, and, as I showed in my last hound paper, Lord 

 Stafford patronized him. Charles Leedham has Linkboy's skin thrown over a 



