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The capabilities of the Quorn and Pytchley 

 were more suited to his taste than any of the 

 others, as well they might be. In 1817 he 

 took possession of Quorn Hall and the appur- 

 tenances. He had subsequently a great prize 

 in his kennel, a hound called Rocket, one of 

 the pack purchased from Lord Vernon, and he 

 bred very extensively from him ; he was lineally 

 descended from Lord Yarborough's Ranter, 

 thus apostrophised in the Brocklesby kennel 

 book — " Ranter, a very famous hound and 

 stallion ; his blood has been always considered 

 as stout, or stouter, than any other in 

 England, in all kennels, especially in Mr, 

 Meynell's and the Burton." He was entered 

 in 1791, the same year as Mr. Meynell's 

 Stormer, a hound, too, of great celebrity, an 

 ancestor of Mr. Osbaldeston's Furrier, who 

 came to the Quorn kennels under those for- 

 tuitous circumstances commonly ascribed to 

 luck. It was in 1851, the year in which the 

 Squire's second occupation commenced, when, 

 hunting five days a week, he required a 

 larger entry than his own resources in York- 

 shire and elsewhere afforded, so the young 

 draft was secured from Belvoir. The late 

 Duke of Rutland presided over the drafting 



