CHAPTEH V 



Seasons 1873-74 and 1874-75 



Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A. , in the Field and at Work — Leicestershire 

 Sport compared with Lincohishire Sport — Will Goodall, junr. — 

 Sir Frederick Johnstone and Mr. " Chicken " Hartopp — Hunters 

 Tom Day and Lady Grey — Lord Wilton leads the Field — William 

 Blakeshorough, Whip — Death of Loi-d George Manners — Mr. 

 Richard Norman and Lord Forester — The Empress of Austria 

 has a Morning's Cub-hunting — Her Beagles in Austria — Tliirty- 

 eight Days' stop for Frost — Red-Letter Days afterwards — A Fall 

 taken by Captain Riddell — Lord Wilton and Lord Grey de Wilton 

 at Timber. 



,NE of those who hunted 

 from Melton at this period 

 was Sir Francis Grant, 

 President of the Royal 

 Academy, considered the 

 handsomest man that rode 

 to the three packs in his 

 day. Related to the Duke 

 of Rutland by marriage 

 [v^'^with Miss Norman, he 

 was a constant visitor at 

 Belvoir, spending many an hour on the flags with 

 Gillard. Perhaps of all the pictures and portraits 



