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offering 90,000 to 30,000 against him ; which bet, how- 

 ever, his lordship knew better than to accept. 



Lord Glasgow was hasty in temper, and when irritated 

 was not particular in his choice of words, having, indeed, 

 his own special vocabulary of peculiar expletives. But 

 his temper may have been largely due to the fact that he 

 was a martyr to acute neuralgia in the back of his neck, 

 which he was always seen rubbing with one hand or the 

 other. It is said that when he won, he on several occa- 

 sions gave the stakes to Aldcroft, his favourite jockey ; but 

 this, I should think, wants confirmation. He left Mr. Scott 

 in an unmanly way, saying he did not want ' a brougham 

 trainer ' ; an inapt reflection, which probably no one but 

 his eccentric lordship could have conceived. He was 

 occasionally condoled with by some of his compeers on 

 his extraordinary run of ill-luck ; to which he would 

 reply by saying, ' No one could be unlucky that had 

 150,000 a year.' He had a great number of named 

 and unnamed brood-mares and stallions, foals and year- 

 lings, at the time of his death, besides his horses in 

 training. These he bequeathed to his friends, the late 

 General Peel and Mr. George Payne, with a certain 

 reservation that they were not to be sold, but raced. 

 They ran in the latter gentleman's name ; but, out of 

 compliment to the donor, always in the deceased noble- 

 man's colours red and white. 



Another notable personage was the late Lord Exeter. 

 He was a rather small man, and always dressed in black. 

 He was unfashionable enough to wear a shirt-collar, and 

 round this a necktie stiffly starched was wound several 

 times. The result was, that it was impossible for his 

 lordship to turn his head without moving his whole body 

 a kind of artificial severe stiff-neck. He would walk 

 from one end of the Newmarket Street to the other; 



