The arms are those of Meynell impaling those of Boothby, as borne by Hugo Meynell, the son of Littleton Poyntz Meynell. He was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1758 and sat as M.P. for Litchfield. He married as his second wife Anne, daughter of Thomas Boothby Scrimshire.

Hugo Meynell has been described as the father of modern fox hunting. As a young man he took over the territory hunted by Thomas Boothby, his future father-in-law, who was described in his obituary in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1752 as "one of the greatest sportsmen in England," and moved to Quorn Hall in Leicestershire in 1753. Here he kept what virtually amounted to open house and entertained visitors to the open runs for which that county was to be famous in the following century. Meynell's pack of hounds, which he hunted for over forty years and which in time became known as the Quorn, remains today one of the premier hunts in England. Nimrod [C.J. Apperley], wrote thus of Meynell in the 1820s: "As a master of a pack of fox hounds, Mr. Meynell has never been excelled. Independent of his knowledge of everything relating to hounds and hunting, his conduct in the field was such as should be handed down as an example worthy the imitation of every master of fox-hounds" (Nimrod's Hunting Tours: Leicestershire).