146 THE MEYNELL HOUNDS. [1888 



hounds, and married the eldest daughter of Sir Andrew 

 Walker of Osmaston in this country, yet he belongs more 

 properly to Cheshire. He is a wonderfully good man to 

 liounds, and has won no end of point-to-point races into 

 the bargain. 



There was a frost from February 14th till March 6th. 

 On the 8th there was a good gallop late in the evening 

 from Egginton Gorse to the right of Etwall and Mickle- 

 over, to ground on the Great Northern Railway just below 

 the Derby Workhouse, a five-and-a-half-mile point, in 

 forty minutes. On the 15th there was an uncommon 

 event for the Meynell — a blank day — though they drew 

 from Langley Gorse to Sudbury Coppice. 



Then, on March 20th, as a writer at the time observed : 

 " The prosperous and popular Meynell Hunt— so famous 

 in local sporting annals — sustained about as severe a blow 

 as possibly could have befallen it, short of final disruption, 

 or a dead set against it by the farmers, and signs even 

 of those dire catastrophes are not entirely wanting. Mr. 

 Reginald Chandos-Pole, the genial and manly squire of 

 Radburne, who, for six years, was the popular Master of 

 the Hunt — an honour which for the last year or two he 

 has shared with Mr. Hamar Bass — has definitely decided 

 to resign the joint-Mastership, to retire from its committee, 

 and to transfer himself and his hounds to what, in sporting 

 phraseology, is known as ' another country,' that other 

 country being, we believe, so remote as Dorsetshire. Of 

 course, there is more, probably, behind the scenes than the 

 public or even the press are aware of, and Mr. Chandos- 

 Pole, who is the very soul of honour himself, and an utter 

 stranger to intrigues and cabals, was too much the gentle- 

 man to explain why he had come to the determination to 

 resign, save only that he had done so after much fore- 

 thought and consideration. But although Mr. Chandos- 

 Pole said so little, those who know his almost paternal 

 interest in the Meynell country during the last decade, 

 and the aftection with which ' Shandy ' is regarded by the 

 Hunt, can imagine something of what he felt in announcing 



