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powerful attraction of 5,OOOZ., is not stated ; but it is 

 more likely that he lost his own ' century.' 



Sir CHARLES DAVERS, Bart., ran Attack for a 

 Jockey Club Plate in 1777. He was apparently son 

 of Sir Robert Davers, M.P., a mighty Nimrod, whose 

 name is found among the subscribers to Heber's 

 1 Calendar ' about 1760. Sir Charles, who was like- 

 wise a mighty Nimrod, M.F.H., M.P. for Edmundsbury 

 (alias Bury St. Edmunds), was of Eougham, Suffolk, 

 and, like so many of the early members of the Jockey 

 Club, appears to have belonged to a family of West 

 Indian connections. Sir Charles would be remark- 

 able if only as one of the few members of the Jockey 

 Club against whom * Louse ' Pigott can find nothing 

 to say ; but he is also remarkable as a great bene- 

 factor of the Turf. For, at the death of the famous 

 Mr. Jenison Shafto, and the consequent sale at New- 

 market, October 24, 1771, he purchased the brood- 

 mare Miss Eamsden (by Cade), and from her bred 

 Quicksand, Wormwood, Whipcord, and above all the 

 celebrated Woodpecker, a great racehorse, and one of 

 the very greatest sires of the ' Stud Book.' In his 

 capacity of M.F.H. also Sir Charles was remarkable, 

 for it is recorded that his pack of hounds on one 

 occasion found a leash of foxes, whereupon it split up 

 into three packs, each of which had a splendid run 

 and killed. Sir Charles, again, was remarkable in 

 being the last of his race (so far as the baronetcy 

 was concerned), for he, like the famous Turfite Sir 



