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name only), and he owned (at any rate at the time of 

 his death) The Euler, winner of the St. Leger of 

 1780 in the name of Mr. William Bethell, of Eise, 

 Holdernesse, a real old Yorkshire gentleman, who 

 was confederated with Mr. Pratt, and may very well 

 have been himself a member of the Jockey Club, 

 though there is no proof that he was (and the mem- 

 bership of Mr. Pratt would be ' enough for two ' ) . 

 Of this Mr. Bethell it was remarked, at his death in 

 July 1799, that he had * never discharged a servant, 

 never raised a rent, and never turned out an old 

 tenant.' It is a pity that his name cannot be claimed 

 for the Jockey Club. 



Mr. EEAD, one of the signatories of the Jockey 

 Club documents in 1758, is presumed to have been 

 Wilberforce Eead, Esq., of Grimthorpe, near Market 

 Weighton, Yorkshire, who is described as a gentleman 

 of good family but small means, but ' moving in the 

 first circles.' His chief title to commemoration is 

 that he introduced to the Turf the celebrated jockey, 

 John Singleton, sen. 



Mr. SCOTT, one of the Jockey Club signatories of 

 1758, was almost certainly the gentleman whom 

 Horace Walpole mentions as a Captain Scott, who, in 

 1755, won a vast sum of money at hazard from the 

 unfortunate Sir John Bland, of Kippax Park, Skipton, 

 Yorks, and who apparently developed into the ' cele- 

 brated General Scott,' whose daughters became 

 Duchess of Portland, Viscountess Downe, and Vis- 



