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on all great occasions he found someone who could do 

 them better. I do not even consider he was successful 

 in racing, considering the large stud he had, and the 

 ample means of supporting it. After leaving Danebury, 

 he was constantly unlucky. He displayed singular want 

 of judgment both in parting with his stud for a tithe of 

 its value, and in backing one of his own horses against 

 another and a better one. As a soldier, he showed him- 

 self captious. His political career was not brilliant. If 

 he was by nature justifiably haughty, he displayed little 

 magnanimity on more than one occasion, and showed 

 himself capable of descending to plebeian vices without 

 the excuse of necessity. He died on the 21st of Sep- 

 tember, 1848, in the forty-seventh year of his age, in 

 one of his father's meadows near Welbeck Abbey, and 

 was buried in Marylebone, London, where much of the 

 family property is situated. 



CHAPTER VI. 



MEN OF PAST DAYS. 



The Bentinck family The old Duke Proud but liked Races with 

 Mr. Greville Tiresiaa'a Derby The Duke offended Incident at 

 Newmarket A needful correction Newmarket then and now 

 Lord Henry as a sportsman An adventure on the moors The late 

 Duke as Lord Titchfield Curious dress in summer Monastic seclu- 

 sion of Welbeck Lord George and the fair sex. 



Mr. Fulwar Craven ; oddity in dress Deception ; in the Oaks and 

 Derby The jockey interviewed ; a neat rejoinder Addicted to low 

 company Mr. Ramsay Curious stories told of the two Anecdote 

 of his trainer, Mr. Dilly : ' the dead alive 'Sagacious dogs j a 

 terror to tramps ; a home-comer ; the signal-dog at Porchester Station 

 Drawing a bear. 



Lord Glasgow's oddities General Pcd before the Two Thousand 

 His indifferent stud Delight in reckless matches Handicaps 



