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(brothers), of whom one certainly, and two probably, 

 belonged to the Jockey Club. 



There is some confusion about the actual succes- 

 sors of the sixth Earl ; but what is certain about them 

 seems to be that there were three brothers, who either 

 succeeded the sixth Earl one after the other, or, but 

 for premature decease, might have become Earls one 

 after the other. Two of them, undoubtedly, became 

 respectively the seventh and eighth Earl ; as to the 

 third, obituaries and other accounts are mislead- 

 ing and bewildering. However, the three brothers 

 (Eichard, Henry, and Augustus) are said to have 

 been popularly known by the nicknames of ' Cripple- 

 gate,' * Newgate,' and 'Hellgate ' (this last nickname 

 having been conferred upon the youngest brother, 

 Augustus, to emphasise the fact, presumably, that he 

 was in holy orders, as he was). ' Cripplegate,' the 

 eldest, the immediate successor of the sixth Earl, 

 died in 1793, at the early age of twenty-four, shot 

 accidentally or intentionally by his own hand whilst 

 he was discharging a part of his military duties. His 

 membership of the Jockey Club is amply proved by 

 all sorts of evidence, notably by his winning a Jockey 

 Club Plate in 1788 with Eockingham (alias Camden). 

 He was the young gentleman who ' went the pace ' so 

 awfully as to become, like Pope's Duke of Wharton, 

 1 the scorn and wonder of the age.' He was the young 

 gentleman whose freaks at Newmarket and elsewhere 

 fill page upon page in books devoted to * sporting 



