140 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1887 



on to Rough Park, past Hamstall Ridware, back to Abbots 

 Bromley. 



There was a rare scent all day, and the hounds' voices 

 made the old woods fairly ring. 



In January of this year (1887), a great loss befell the 

 country in the death of Lord Bagot, one of the very 

 staunchest supporters of the hunt. He was born in 1811, 

 and was educated at the Charterhouse, at Eton, and 

 Magdalen College, Cambridge. He succeeded to the title 

 as third baron in 1856. He was at one time a Lord of 

 the Bedchamber to Prince Consort, and held the office of a 

 Lord in Waiting to the Queen for some years. Moreover, 

 he sat in Parliament for the county of Denbigh, where he 

 owns large estates, as a Conservative, from 1835 to 1852, 

 and was a deputy -lieutenant and Justice of the Peace for 

 the counties of Stafford and Derby. In 1851 he married 

 the Hon. Lucia Caroline Elizabeth Agar-Ellis, the eldest 

 daughter of the late Lord Dover, by whom he had two 

 sons and four daughters. One of the latter married the 

 late Mr. Hamar Bass. There was no better landlord than 

 the late Lord Bagot, and the estates are in wonderful 

 order — every hunting man can bear testimony to the 

 well-hung gates, and wire is a thing unknown. His 

 tenants still speak of him in a way that is pleasant to 

 hear in this democratic age. 



For nearly sixty years he had been connected with the 

 Staffordshire Yeomanry, which corps he joined in 1827 

 and was at once given a captain's commission in the 

 ITttoxeter troop. The yeomanry was frequently called 

 out in those days to quell riots of one kind and another, 

 and in 1831 especially there were great disturbances over 

 the rejection of the Reform Bill. On October 10th the 

 Riot Act was read, and the yeomanry was called out — the 

 Staffordshire body, with others, being summoned to Derby 

 — where Lord Bagot commanded the Burton troop. All 

 the troops were highly praised for their efficiency in keep- 

 ing order during the week that they remained there. In 

 November of the same year again there were serious 



