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fashion, and did not want to be bothered ' (just like 

 Lord Eockingham), was, much to his annoyance, 

 advanced to high honour, and was made ' governour ' 

 to two Koyal Princes, of whom one was afterwards 

 George III. The second Earl of Waldegrave married 

 Horace Walpole's niece, Maria (natural daughter of 

 Sir Edward Walpole), who became Duchess of Glou- 

 cester, and was mother of the Maria Waldegrave who, 

 according to Horace Walpole, was very shabbily 

 treated by the Earl of Egremont, and, in fact, jilted 

 by him, but she afterwards married the fourth Duke 

 of Grafton for better or worse. Lord Waldegrave, 

 having no male issue, was succeeded by his brother 

 John (died 1784), who as a Master of the Horse 

 might very well have been a member of the Jockey 

 Club, but proofs of his membership are not forth*- 

 coming. The second Earl must be reckoned one of 

 the most distinguished and most creditable among the 

 Fathers of the Jockey Club. 



As in the case of the dukes it is surprising to find 

 no Eutland among the ducal members of the Jockey 

 Club, so, in the case of the lords, one is inclined to be 

 astonished at the conspicuous absence of the second 

 Lord Godolphin's name. He was racing at New- 

 market at the time of the Jockey Club's foundation ; 

 but no certain proof of his membership can be dis- 

 covered. It must be remembered, however, that he 

 was very old at the Club's first appearance at New- 

 market in 1753, at which time he was seventy-five 



