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is made out to have succeeded his brother, who died 

 unmarried in 1738 ; to have himself died s.p. at 

 eighty years of age or more in 1799, and to have been 

 succeeded by his brother, at whose death s.p. in 1807 

 the title became extinct. Sir John appears to have 

 sold Fawley Manor to the Vansittarts (who sold it to 

 a Mr. Tipping, whose niece and heiress married the 

 Rev. Philip Wroughton, and brought the property 

 into that family), and to have migrated into Suffolk, 

 near Bury St. Edmunds, where he died. He ' went 

 ahead ' in his youth, according to George Selwyn and 

 his correspondents ; but he was a great breeder, owner, 

 and runner of racehorses. He was one of the sub- 

 scribers to the Jockey Club Challenge Cup in 1768 ; 

 and at the death of the * Culloden ' Duke of Cumber- 

 land in 1765, he had purchased the illustrious (King) 

 Herod. He refused 2,000 guineas offered by the 

 King of Poland for the horse ; but, nevertheless the 

 great sire is stated by some authorities to have died 

 at Sir John's stud-farm in such a terrible state of 

 dirt, neglect, and disease that, if the story be true, 

 nothing * bonum ' can be said for Sir John, though he 

 is dead. Perhaps Herod had turned so savage that 

 the only grooming he could receive consisted in ' inter- 

 mittent dashes with a broom,' as has been related 

 of another horse that had lost his temper ; otherwise 

 one would think that self-interest, if no better feeling, 

 would ensure proper attention for a valuable animal 

 of that description. 



