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CHAPTER XIII. 



Mr. Henley George Greaves, 1863 to 1866. 



Mr. Henley George Greaves, of Elmsall 

 Lodge, in the county of Yorkshire, was the 

 only son of Mr. Henley George Greaves, of 

 Hemsworth Hall, York and Cottesmore Hall, 

 Rutland. This Mr. Greaves at one time 

 rented Kingstone House from Mr. Blandy- 

 Jenkins, and his son, Henley, was born there 

 in 1818. Mr, Henley Greaves had already 

 hunted five different countries before he took 

 the " Old Berkshire," his last being " the Vale 

 of White Horse," which he had hunted for 

 two seasons, 1861 to 1862, He married in 

 1 84 1 the second daughter of Mr. Fountain 

 Wilson, of Melton Park, and had two children, 

 Mr. George Richard Greaves, late of Western 

 House, Bucks, and Maria, widow of the late 

 John Shaw Phillips, of Culham. Mr. Henley 

 Greaves was a giant and exceedingly heavy, 

 and was humorously known as" Magni Dolores." 

 He was once called as a witness in a horse 

 case at Oxford to prove that the horse in 

 question was a roarer. Mr. Huddleston,* the 



* Afterwards Baron Huddleston of the High Court of 

 Justice. 



