278 THE QUORN HUNT 



This was a very remarkable sale of hunters, the horses 

 being all of the very highest class. That Lord Stamford 

 meant to do well by the Quorn Hunt is apparent from 

 the fact that he gave ^"500 a year towards the mainte- 

 nance of the hounds when Mr. Clowes took them over. 



Lord Stamford, who died early in 1883, was born at 

 Enville Hall, in Staffordshire, in 1827, so that he was 

 only just thirty years old when he took the Quorn country 

 in 1858 under the circumstances already noted. 



George Harry Grey was the eldest of five children, three of 

 whom predeceased him. In early years he was sent to the 

 famous school near Hatfield of the Rev. B. Peile, under whose 

 care many young noblemen and men of good family were placed. 

 At Mr. Peile's he had for companions the present Duke of West- 

 minster, Lord Derby, Lord Lichfield, Lord Harewood, Lord 

 Howe, and many other well-known men, sportsmen and other- 

 wise. Lord Stamford was never at a public school, going direct 

 from Mr. Peile's to Cambridge. His ancestor, Henry de Grey, is 

 said 1 to have carried the horn in the time of Richard I., and 

 following in the steps of his ancestor, Lord Stamford had in him 

 the interest of an ardent fox-hunter, and soon after attaining his 

 majority he hunted the Albrighton country for a time from Enville 

 Hall, and then he took the Quorn country in the circumstances 

 mentioned above. 



Lord Stamford was a great cricketer, and played a 

 good deal at Lords, while at Enville Hall he laid out a 

 private ground which was considered quite equal to any 

 in England. 



Shooting, too, was another of Lord Stamford's 

 favourite pursuits. At both Enville Hall and Brad- 

 gate Park much excellent sport was enjoyed, though at 

 neither place was game ever sacrificed to foxes, and his 

 lordship's records 2 show that foxes and pheasants can 

 live together if it be intended that they should do so. It 



1 See Field, January 6, 1883. 



2 On the 15th December 1856, and four following days, shooting parties 

 varying from eight to eleven guns shot 3666 head, of which 1388 were 

 pheasants, 1164 hares, 1010 rabbits, 47 partridges, and 35 woodcock. In 



