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on the Turf, and he married into a racing family, 

 having espoused a daughter of Sir J. Astley and 

 sister to the Countess of Tankerville. The very year 

 after Mr. Swymmer's death his widow married Sir 

 F. Vincent, and that is all that can be discovered 

 about this member of the Jockey Club. 



Mr. VARBY, signatory of the Jockey Club ' Eesolu- 

 tion ' in 1769, is made out to have been William 

 Varey, Esq., familiarly called * Billy Varey ' in 

 Selwyn's correspondence, where he is mentioned in 

 conjunction with * Bet Thompson and Charley Price ' 

 as likely to be (as he was) a pall-bearer at the funeral 

 of Lord Bath (Pulteney). He is himself one of 

 Selwyn's correspondents, and he seems to have been 

 of Ixworth Abbey, near Bury, Suffolk, all in the way, 

 as it were, to Newmarket and the Jockey Club. It was 

 probably he who in 1769 was appointed ' Superinten- 

 dent of all His Majesty's gardens belonging to all and 

 any his Koyal palaces in England.' Mr. Varey, how- 

 ever, does not seem to have left his mark upon the 

 history of the Turf or of the Jockey Club. 



Mr. VEENON, whose membership of the Club is 

 plain from a hundred pieces of evidence, among 

 which it will suffice to mention that he won one of 

 the two Jockey Club Plates of 1753 (the year of the 

 Club's first appearance at Newmarket), was Eichard 

 Vernon, sometimes styled (erroneously, apparently) 

 the Hon. Eichard Vernon, and sometimes Captain 

 Vernon (correctly, as he began life in the Guards), 



