154 THE QUORN HUNT 



MR. HOLYOAKE GOODRICKE 



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SOME of the estates were entailed in favour of the 

 members of the Clermont family ; but nearly all 

 the property over which Sir H. Goodricke had a 

 power of disposal, including the horses, hounds, and 

 all chattels, he left to his schoolfellow and life-long 

 friend, Mr. Francis Lyttelton Holyoake, who was pro- 

 bably as much surprised as was the rest of the world 

 at the turn things had taken. Mr. Holyoake married 

 Miss Payne, of Sulby Abbey, a sister of the late Mr. 

 George Payne, of racing renown, and twice master of 

 the Pytchley hounds. Mr. Holyoake at once made 

 himself responsible for the carrying on of the hounds 

 durino" the approaching season, but as his health did not 

 then permit of his being out himself, the management 

 was delegated to Mr. Greene, of Rolleston, and the 

 pack was to be out four days a week. 



Mr. Holyoake, who was the eldest son of Mr. Francis 

 Holyoake, of Tettenhall, was at one time about the 

 hardest and fastest man over a country for a short time 

 that Leicestershire had ever seen — in fact, the manner 

 in which he would gallop and jump, especially when 

 mounted on Baronet, his favourite horse, sometimes led 

 him into the indiscretion of overriding hounds. 



The season 1833-34 necessarily opened amid some- 

 what mournful surroundings, for there was no one who 

 did not sincerely lament the death of the late master. 

 There was, however, one ludicrous circumstance in con- 



