A history of the Meynell hounds and country, 1780-1901 (1901) (14773605785)

Identifier: historyofmeynell01rand (find matches)
Title: A history of the Meynell hounds and country, 1780-1901
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Randall, J. L. (James Lowndes), 1855-1932
Subjects: Horses Meynell hounds Fox hunting
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University



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vertheless, at the twentieth trial he succeeded, and alarge crowd, collected to watch him, seemed glad of anopportunity to give their Waterloo hero a hearty cheeras he rode away. So wrote Whyte Melville in his Riding Recollections. This was the grandfather ofthe nobleman whose name heads this page, so it looks asif the grandson inherited that horsemanship for whichhe became so famous. Of him Sir Richard FitzHerbert,whose opinion is worth having, always says, He wasquite one of the quickest men to hounds I ever saw.But perhaps the best criterion of the estimation in whichhe was held by his contemporaries is this. If you askthem who were the best men with the Meynell in theirday, the combination of names may, and often does, vary,but one name invariably occurs in it, and that is LordBerkeley Pagets. The following is a rough outline ofhis career, and it is worth noticing that he began really to Lord Berkeley Paget. From a photograph by John Edwards. rlqfii^oioriq b mcnR.ftb-8ijwb3 nriol.
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LORD BERKELEY PAGET. 183 ride ait an age when most boys are seen poking about witbthe family coachman or their fathers second horseman :—He first came into the Meynell country as a boy,when his father, Lord Anglesey, succeeded to the Beau-desert estates in 1854. Beaudesert and Cannock Chacewere then in the Meynell country, and they always usedto meet there and hunt it in the spring. It still belongsto the Meynell, but some years ago (in 1868) they lent itto the South Staftbrd, who hunt it at the present time.Lord Berkeley soon took to hunting, as the followingcutting from a local paper of that period (1858) willshow:— MR. MEYNELL INGRAMS HOUNDS. We have much pleasure in recording a brilliant run of fifty-five minutes withMr. Meynell Ingi-ams hounds on the 5th inst., when the accomplished andjuvenile (sports man we must say), Lord Berkeley Paget, a boy of only fourteenyears of age, led a field of about two hundred horsemen, and amongst them someof the hardest riders in the country.