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probably, have been a member of the Jockey Club) ; 

 the Duke of Portland (the third, who died in 1809, 

 was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland for a short time, and 

 Prime Minister in 1807, and was brother of the racing 

 Lord E. Bentinck, and father of the racing fourth 

 Duke of Portland) ; Lord Auckland (who was the Rt. 

 Hon. W. Eden, third son of Sir Robert Eden, third 

 Baronet, of Castle Eden, Durham, a family most dis- 

 tinguished in the annals of racing, so that he may 

 very well indeed have been an actual member of the 

 Jockey Club, though he has left no personal impression 

 upon the Turf) ; Lord Belgrave (who is not best known 

 by that name as a racing member of the Jockey Club, 

 but will appear hereafter in that character under the 

 style and title, first, of the second Earl of Grosvenor, 

 and then of the first Marquess of Westminster) ; Lord 

 E. Bentinck (a great racer and gentleman-rider, who 

 married the daughter of Richard Cumberland, the 

 author, and was brother to the third Duke of Portland, 

 and almost without doubt a member of the Jockey 

 Club) ; Lord Chesterfield (the Lord to whom the 

 ' Letters ' were addressed and who was very likely in- 

 deed a member, if only because his predecessor had 

 put in his will a provision that 'if his successor should 

 keep racehorses or hounds, or resort to Newmarket 

 Races, or lose 500L in one day by gambling, he should 

 forfeit 5,OOOL to the Dean and Chapter of West- 

 minster,' a body chosen by the testator on the amus- 

 ing plea that he had transacted business with them 



