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have had experience) to be found in country inns, 

 and feeling himself gliding apparently to the ground 

 exclaimed, ' I'm off ! ' which Mrs. Grundy, as it was 

 just before he died, attributed to profanity. 



LORD SHERBORNE (born 1744, died 1820), by name 

 a Button (James, son of the great Turfite James 

 Lenox Button, who was running Ajax, by Second, 

 and many other good horses all over the country 

 about the time or even before that the Jockey Club 

 was foaled), won a Jockey Club Plate with Spectre in 

 1784, in which year, having been M.P. for Gloucester 

 for many years, he was created Lord Sherborne, from 

 the family estate of Sherborne, Gloucestershire. How 

 great the Buttons were upon the Turf may be inferred 

 from the fact that a certain course at Newmarket was 

 named Button's Course after one of them ; though it 

 has not held its own, as ' Kowley's Mile ' and ' Bun- 

 bury 's Mile,' and so on, but has passed away from 

 remembrance, like the 'Buke's Course ' and the 'Cler- 

 mont Course,' and the rest of them. The name of 

 the family was originally Naper, which Lord Sher- 

 borne's next brother, William (Ealph being the third), 

 resumed on succeeding to the Naper portion of the 

 family property at his father's death (about 1775). 

 Hence the records of racing may be found a little 

 puzzling sometimes ; the same horse appearing under 

 the name both of Button and Naper occasionally. 



[LORD STAWELL], having found his way on to the 

 list without credentials that can be verified beyond a 



