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was a triennial occupation, when Mr. Newton 

 Fellowes succeeded him, on whicli occasion a 

 pack of hounds was formed, whose descendants 

 have remained in the country to the present 

 period. Boxall was appointed huntsman by 

 Mr. Fellowes, and continued in that office 

 through the mastership of Mr. Russell, and 

 during a part of the time that Mr. Thornhill 

 kept the hounds, when the horn was handed 

 to Tom Day, of whom it was most gratifying 

 to read in BeWs Life the kind, well-merited 

 remarks of his quondam master, the ever-cele- 

 brated " Squire of Quorn." Mr. Thornhill 

 resigned in favour of Mr. Granville, and it is 

 curious to relate that of the five masters in suc- 

 cession each of them held the country for 

 three years. The late greatly-esteemed Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke, then Mr. Barnard, took 

 to the establishment, and afforded a vast 

 amount of sport during his seventeen years' 

 occupation. In 1856, his lordship gave up in 

 favour of Mr. Lucy, whose time was brief, how- 

 ever brilliant his establishment, when in turn he 

 resigned to Mr. Henley Greaves, whose career 

 was signalised by an unfortunate paucity of 

 sport. Coming to the rescue, Lord Willoughby 

 resumed in 1861, in conjunction with the Hon. 



