THE QUORN. Ill 



scratch pack of anything he could pick up at first — Osbaldeston 

 with his superb pack to the Hambiedon, a much better 

 scenting country than the Tedworth, where he could do literally 

 nothing at all, while Mr. Smith, in spite of big woods, showed 

 such sport as could not be excelled in any country. 



Sir Bellingham Graham succeeded Osbaldeston in 1821, and 

 had the enormous subscription of 4000/., but w\as in office only 

 two years, Avhen he exchanged countries with Osbaldeston, 

 taking the Hambledon off his hands, and allowing him to come 

 back to Quorn, where he remained until 1828, when Lord 

 Southampton became master, and removed the kennels from 

 Quorn to Humberstone Gate. The original name was dropped, 

 and they were known as Lord Southampton's hounds. In 1831, 

 Sir Harry Goodricke became master, and built kennels at 

 Thrussington, on which he expended six thousand pounds, and 

 he gave a thousand pounds for the Duke of Bedford's pack. 

 Mountford carried the horn, and George Beers and Will Derry 

 were his whips. His melancholy death in Ireland cut short 

 his reign, and he was succeeded in the mastership by Sir Francis 

 Holyoake Goodricke, of Studley Castle, to whom he left all his 

 unentailed property. He quickly gave up hunting altogether, 

 and was succeeded by Mr. Eowland Errington, and then came 

 Lord Suffield, who lived with Lord Gardner at Lowesby Hall, 

 and moved the kennels to Billesden. There was little sport in 

 this reign, though no expense was spared. Perhaps the old 

 adage of too many cooks sj^oiling the broth held good here, for 

 a poet of the time wrote, — 



And S d keeps, whilst G r hunts the hounds. 



In 1839, Mr. Hodgson, from the Holderness, was master, but 

 Avas by no means so successful across the Leicestershire pastures 

 as amongst the drains and wolds of the East Eiding. He kept 

 them for two years, and then came Mr. Green, of Ilolleston, the 

 first local master, if I may use the term, that ever had the Quorn. 

 Tom Day was his huntsman, and latterly Captain Percy Williams 



