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still remained faithful in his allegiance to the Ouorn 

 pack, and in following them during the season he broke 

 his collar-bone — not the first accident he sustained in his 

 prolonged career of riding over Leicestershire. 



Ben Boothroyd hunted the hounds for one season 

 only under Lord Stamford, for his appointment to the 

 post of huntsman was never popular in Leicestershire. 

 He was voted slow with the Donington, and a man 

 must be very quick who attempts to hunt the Ouorn. 

 His place was taken at the beginning of the season 

 1857-58 by John Treadwell, 1 a first-class man in all 

 departments, and so long as the horn was at his saddle- 

 bow good sport was enjoyed, sometimes even against 

 long odds ; and a good Midland sportsman, who met the 

 Quorn at Great Dalby in November 1857, declared that 

 nothing during the day gave him greater pleasure than 

 on arriving at the fixture to find old Tom Day, for- 

 merly huntsman to the Ouorn, with Goodall, of the 

 Belvoir, and John Treadwell engaged in careful criticism 

 of the Quorn pack. " It was indeed a famous trio," 

 he wrote. 



At this time Ferneley, the famous painter of animals 

 and hunting scenes — he painted the picture of Assheton 

 Smith on Ayston, with Dick Burton and some favourite 

 hounds— was, as he had been for some time, settled 

 down in Melton. In the February of 1857 he was 

 engaged on a picture representing a horse show, and 



1 John Treadwell, the son of James Treadwell, Mr. Farquharson's hunts- 

 man in Dorsetshire, began his hunting career in Scotland under Mr. Robert- 

 son, whipping in to his uncle, Charles Treadwell, who subsequently hunted 

 the Bramham Moor hounds. His next place was with Major Stretton in 

 Monmouthshire, and a year or two afterwards he went to the Hambledon, 

 then under the mastership of Mr. Walter Long, with whom he remained for 

 about four years before removing to the Vine, then under a committee, with 

 Sir Richard Pycroft as field master. In 1847 he took service under Mr. 

 Henley Greaves, first in the Cottesmore, then in the Essex country, and in 

 1857 became huntsman of the Quorn. On Lord Stamford giving up the 

 country in 1863 he rejoined Mr. Henley Greaves in the Old Berks country, 

 which he hunted until his resignation in 1882. He died in March 1895. 





