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posteri) of 141. That Lord Chamberlain is under- 

 stood to have been Eobert Bertie, fourth Earl and first 

 Marquess of Lindsey, and fourteenth Baron Wil- 

 loughby d'Eresby, who the very next year was created 

 by George the First Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven. 

 He, as we have seen, was a racing man, and sufficiently 

 courtier-like withal to run second to his Queen ; and 

 at his death in 1723 he was succeeded by his son and 

 heir Peregrine, who became a noted horse-racer and 

 horse-breeder (as the manes of the ' Ancaster ' Gentle- 

 man, foaled in 1723, and of the ' Ancaster ' Driver, 

 foaled in 1727, and of many another excellent horse 

 might be summoned by a Glendower from the vasty 

 deep to testify) in his day, and was succeeded at his 

 death in 1742 by his son and heir Peregrine, the 

 third Duke, already dealt with. The third Duke was 

 succeeded at his death in 1778 by his son and heir 

 Kobert, who at his very early death in 1779 (charit- 

 ably attributed by Horace Walpole to ' a scarlet fever 

 brought on by drunkenness and rioting '), when he 

 was but twenty-three, was succeeded by his uncle 

 Brownlow Bertie, at whose death in 1809 the duke- 

 dom of Ancaster and Kesteven became extinct, though 

 the family name of Bertie still lurks beneath the 

 titles of the Earls of Abingdon and Lindsey, and 

 there is a Lord Kesteven (a Trollope, not a Bertie) 

 not unknown upon the Turf. As for the fourth Duke 

 of Ancaster, who died but eleven months after his 

 succession, he may have been, and probably was, a 



