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1767, and was himself succeeded by the Kev. Sir 

 Henry in 1804, with whom the title was extinguished. 

 He was not only the owner but also the breeder of 

 Waxy ; and Waxy was one too many for Gohanna, 

 and was the sire of 'Waxy ' Pope, Whalebone, Whisker, 

 Music, Minuet, &c. ; so that Sir F. Poole did his duty 

 as a ' Father of the Turf ' to an extremely lively tune. 



Sir F. STANDISH, of Duxbury, Lancashire, winner 

 of the Derby in 1795, 1796, 1799, with Spread Eagle, 

 Didelot, and Archduke, and of the Oaks in 1786 and 1796 

 with the Perdita filly (known as The Yellow Filly, by 

 Tandem) and with Parisot (so-called after a famous 

 she-dancer of the day, cf. Baccelli, Violante, &c.), was 

 ' Frank ' Standish, whose Christian name is not a 

 diminutive of Francis, but the surname of his cousins 

 (the Franks of Campsall, Yorks), to whom his property 

 (as he died intestate, suddenly, of apoplexy, whilst 

 his servant was preparing breakfast, in Lower Gros- 

 venor Street, 1812) descended. He ran second for a 

 Jockey Club Plate in 1786 with Lepicq, when the 

 Duke of Graf ton won with Oberon. 



Sir HARRY TEMPEST VANE, otherwise Sir HARRY 

 VANE TEMPEST, Bart., whose famous Cockfighter was 

 beaten by Mr. F. Dawson's Quiz for a Jockey Club 

 Plate in 1802, bears a name redolent of horse-racing 

 from the earliest times to the present day, when it is 

 represented on the list of the Jockey Club by Mar- 

 quesses of Londonderry. Sir H. T. Vane, or Sir H. 

 V. Tempest, was he who purchased (in 1796) Ham- 



