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man's lot early in February 1892 ; the horse trod upon 

 him, but Firr stru^led to his feet and finished the 

 run somehow, though on the morrow, Earp, 1 the first 

 whipper-in, had to take his place. Leicestershire also 

 had to mourn the loss of a good sportsman through an 

 accident, which was unhappily attended with fatal results, 

 befalling Mr. George Harvey, of the Curate's Gorse Farm. 

 He was thrown from his dog-cart, lockjaw eventually set 

 in, and this worthy upholder of hunting succumbed at the 

 early age of forty-one, on Sunday the 8th January 1893. 

 Mr. Harvey was a capital horseman, and would have 

 scored an easy win in the point-to-point race in the 

 previous spring had not his horse fallen at the last 

 fence ; but he had his revenge at the following Melton 

 Hunt Steeplechases, when he was on the same horse. 



Count Metternich, too, was among those who fell 

 victims to accidents, he sustaining so bad a fall that 

 it was some time before he could be removed from the 

 Bell Hotel, Melton Mowbray, to Belvoir Castle, while 

 Mrs. A. Brocklehurst was much shaken through her 

 horse putting its foot in a rabbit-hole and falling heavily. 

 Then, on the 26th June 1893, Captain Henry Mont- 

 gomery Campbell died at his place, Thurmaston Hall, 

 Leicester, after a short illness. The Captain, who was 

 formerly in the Royal Artillery, had hunted with the 

 Quorn for many years, was a keen supporter of the 

 Hunt, saw a good deal of fun, and turned up at the end 

 of most long runs, though the inmates of his stable 

 were scarcely up to Leicestershire form. He seldom 

 missed the more important race meetings, and went 

 simply for the love of the thing, for he never betted 

 even in small sums. 



To go back a few months, the Quorn men heard 

 with unfeigned regret of the determination of Captain 



1 He left the Quorn, after seventeen years' service, at the end of the season 

 1897-98, and went to Mr. Fernie. 



