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visited England about 1782-83, saw horse-races at 

 Epsom or elsewhere, and, as * Mr. Grossley,' described 

 them in print after a fashion worthy of his great 

 imaginative powers, and wonderful for an Englishman 

 to contemplate). 



Some of the members dealt with in treating of 

 the * First Period,' such as the Duke of Cumberland, 

 of course lived well into the ' Second Period,' but it 

 was not necessary to repeat their names. Nor need we 

 say more than a very few words about the asterisked 

 members, whose membership rests almost entirely 

 upon the fact that they appear in ' Louse ' Pigott's 

 gallery. These are the third Duke of Dorset (who 

 succeeded to the title in 1769 and died in 1799, was 

 Lord Steward of the Household, after having been am- 

 bassador to France, and stood high in Koyal favour) ; 

 the Duke of Leeds (father of the Duke who won the St. 

 Leger with Octavian, and was very likely, but cannot be 

 proved to have been, a member of the Jockey Club, 

 the father having been rather a political than a racing 

 character, and, according to Pigott, better fitted to 

 be a director of concerts than a minister, a statesman, 

 or a politician) ; the Duke of Montrose (who figures, 

 as Marquis of Graham, in ' The Kolliad ') ; the Duke 

 of Norfolk (who, in the language of Pigott, ' quitted 

 the religion of his ancestors for his country ' in other 

 words, became a Protestant and who, as Lord Surrey, 

 ran Judge Jefferies, Captain Tart, General Bandbox, 

 and Sir Thomas Jellybag, and may therefore, very 



