106 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



* Bozzy ' was probably not a substantive member, but 

 he is included here (with an obelisk, denoting doubt) 

 because he expressly declares in his preface to ' The 

 Cub at Newmarket ' that the verses were ' written in 

 the Newmarket Coffee Eoom,in which the author, being 

 elected a member of the Jockey Club, had the happiness 

 of spending several sprightly good-humoured evenings.' 

 The date of this statement is 1762, five years before 

 the rule about admission to the Coffee Koom, and 

 very likely means no more than that Boswell was 

 made free of the Booms, for the time of his remaining 

 at Newmarket, on the introduction of Lord Eglinton, 

 a sort of neighbour of Boswell's in Scotland. Boswell's 

 verses begin thus : 



' Lord E[glintou]n, who has, you know, 

 A little dash of whim or so, 

 Who thro' a thousand scenes will range 

 To pick up anything that's strange, 

 By chance a curious Cub had got, 

 On Scotia's mountains newly caught, 

 And, after driving him about 

 Thro' London, many a different rout . . . 

 Newmarket Meeting being near, 

 He thought 'twas best to have him there,' &c. 



From this it is clear that Boswell was not a serious 

 candidate for substantive membership. 



Mr. BBAND, whose membership of the Club is con- 

 veniently established by the fact that he ran Glow- 

 worm (by Eclipse) for a Jockey Club Plate in 1776, is 

 undoubtedly the Thomas Brand (first cousin to the 



