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wards so well known as the abode of General Grosvenor, 

 a keen sportsman, a cheery companion, but not a 

 bold rider. For nearly fifty years Lord Lonsdale 

 hunted the Cottesmore, and he had kept harriers 

 before that. The hunting was quite in the old style, 

 and foxes were walked to death by a steady pack 

 of big hounds, much to the disgust of the Meltonians 

 who came out. The huntsman bore the not inappro- 

 priate name of Slacke. Before the death of Lord 

 Lonsdale, his second son, who succeeded him in the 

 title, took the management, and is said to have 

 learned a great deal from both the Quorn and the 

 Belvoir, which were in style of hunting and kennel 

 management many years ahead of the Cottesmore. 

 It was in Colonel Lowther's time (1870-1876), with 

 Lambert as huntsman, that the Melton people began 

 to perceive the possibilities of the Cottesmore country. 

 Lambert was a quick intelligent man, and gave life 

 to the pack which had plenty of hunting power. 

 The quickest and best bred hounds will become slow 

 with a slow man, and it is wonderful what pace a 

 lively huntsman can raise even with a pack of Bassett 

 hounds. The fox-hound has drive, but he soon loses 

 it if he is not kept up to the mark. 



In 1842 the first Lord Lonsdale gave up the hounds, 

 and Sir Richard Sutton succeeded, taking over the 

 old pack and the same huntsman. We may pass 

 lightly over the following years after the old pack 

 had been sold. Sir Richard Sutton, who had built 

 up an excellent pack on Belvoir lines, with old 

 Goosey as kennel huntsman, took his hounds to 

 Quorndon in 1847. Then came Mr. Henley Greaves 

 and Mr. Borrowes. In his third season Sir John 

 Trollope, afterwards Lord Kesteven, began to form 

 the pack, which was the foundation of the existing 



