82 THE QUORN HUNT 



LORD FOLEY 



1805-1806 



THE new master bought Quorndon from his pre- 

 decessor, and, it is to be assumed, Lord Sefton's share 

 in the hounds and the hunt horses. Lord Foley, who 

 had been a friend and follower of Mr. Meynell, hunted 

 with the Quorn during Lord Sefton's mastership, and so 

 knew the country and the people. While hunting with 

 Lord Harborough's hounds in 1801 he had a very bad fall. 

 His horse's hind legs dropped into a hole and he fell back 

 on his rider, who was rendered insensible, and was so 

 much injured that he could not be moved to Stapleford 

 Park, Lord Harborough's residence, but had to remain 

 at a farm-house. He managed, however, to journey to 

 Witley Court by the 21st of December, on which day 

 he came of age. Lord Foley was the third of his line, 

 and came of a family possessed of a fondness for hunting, 

 his father having hunted a portion of Worcestershire and 

 a small slice of Oxfordshire until ] 776, in which year he 

 sold his hounds to the fourth Lord Fitzwilliam, when 

 he started the Milton pack. Lord Sefton's successor, 

 though he mounted his men very well, does not appear 

 to have been much of a hound man, but as he did not 

 have the pack quite two seasons, not a great deal of 

 harm could have been done. He was a brilliant horse- 

 man, and being really fond of hunting, would no doubt 

 in time have learned the lesson of experience, and 

 eventually have blossomed into a very good M.F.H. 

 He had several qualifications which go to the making of 



