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connection (r. Sir M. Fetherstonhaugh in the * First 

 Period ') and by other signs and tokens (v. Prince of 

 Wales, with whom Sir H. Fetherston was intimate, 

 and for whom he rode), and is he who ran third 

 with Smart, afterwards Claret (by Bourdeaux), for the 

 Derby in 1786, and second for the Oaks with Countess 

 (by Count, Mr. ' Chillaby ' Jennings's) in 1782. 



Sir JOHN LADE, Bart., whose membership of the 

 Jockey Club is proved by his running Adonis for a 

 Jockey Club Plate in 1780, when he was but twenty- 

 three years of age, is not to be confounded, of course, 

 with his quasi-kinsman, ' Counsellor ' Lade (so-called 

 because he was bred to the law, which he neglected 

 for the Turf, whereon he ran half-starved horses), who 

 died in 1799. Sir John is he to whom Dr. Johnson, 

 the lexicographer, addressed the lines ' On a Young 

 Heir's coming of Age,' containing the sarcastic 

 quatrain : 



Wealth, my lad, was made to wander ; 



Let it wander, as it will ; 



Call the jockey, call the pander, 



Bid them come and take their fill. 



How the lexicographer came to be acquainted with 

 such a young 'rip ' is very easily made out, for young 

 Lade's mother was sister to Henry Thrale, the Lades 

 and the Thrales were feUow-brewers at one time in 

 Southwark, and young Lade was ' uncle Thrale's ' 

 ward. Not that Sir John was a true Lade ; for his 

 father was an Inskip, a cousin apparently of a Sir 



