Grenfell remembered the cross-country runs of the "harriers" at Oxford.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
At these times you could see the owls abroad in the late afternoon, before sunset, in quest of prey, quartering the ground like harriers, and dropping suddenly into the grass at intervals, while at dark the air resounded with their solemn hooting, a sound as of a deep-voiced mastiff baying at a great distance.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson
But then he was not at all bound up in either foxhounds or harriers.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black