1773 FIEST PERIOD: CONCLUDED 165 



Mr. Tuting as ' Keeper of the Match-book ' and, to all 

 appearance, Mr. Fawconer (if he ever held the post) 

 as * Secretary to the Jockey Club/ Of course it is 

 impossible here to enter into the dispute between Mr. 

 Fawconer and Mr. J. Weatherby. Suffice it to say 

 that the latter retorted on the former with accusa- 

 tions of pilfering and so on, and remained in 1774 

 complete master of the situation. Thus commenced 

 that monopoly which the Weatherby s have enjoyed 

 ever since, unendangered and almost unassailed, and 

 that close connection between them and the Jockey 

 Club, which has been equally advantageous to both 

 parties, has helped to make the Jockey Club the 

 paramount authority that it is, and the firm of the 

 Weatherbys a nondescript commercial house of no 

 mean standing and financial importance. No doubt the 

 issue of the * Stud Book ' (1791 and 1808), published 

 by the family of Weatherby (one of whose members 

 is understood to have been the original compiler), 

 helped to strengthen the hands both of the 

 Weatherbys and indirectly of the Jockey Club, whose 

 representatives they were and are, and whose place of 

 business in town is looked upon as identical with that 

 of the Weatherbys. This was not always in Old 

 Burlington Street, but at first in Hamilton Street, 

 Park Lane, then at Bury Street, St. James's, then 

 at Oxenden Street, Haymarket, whence (about 1843) 

 it was removed to the present locality. To show 

 the Protean character of the Weatherby's official 



