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that might be inflicted; Mr. Jennings is the un- 

 fortunate Mr. Henry Constantine (alias ' Chillaby ') 

 Jennings, who ran Count for a Jockey Club Plate in 

 1777, and of whom more will be said presently ; Mr. 

 Kingsman is he who ran Olive, winner of the Two 

 Thousand for Mr. Wyndham in 1814, for a Jockey 

 Club Plate in 1816 ; Mr. Lake is he in whose name 

 Nymphina won a Jockey Club Plate in 1805, who was, 

 apparently, Mr. Warwick Lake, Master of the Horse 

 to the Duke of York, and third and youngest son (and 

 third and last Viscount Lake) of the celebrated General 

 Lake (Lord Lake, of Delhi and Laswaree), and who 

 died in 1848, having ceased, apparently, to be a 

 member of the Jockey Club, as his name does not 

 appear on the list of 1835 ; Mr. Lamb is he w r ho, 

 according to Admiral Eous (very likely indeed to 

 know), was a Steward of the Jockey Club in 1797 

 (v. ' Horse-Racing,' p. 68), and who must have been 

 the Hon. J. Peniston Lamb (son of Lord Melbourne), 

 M.P. for Herts from 1802 to 1805 (in which year he 

 died), of Brocket Hall, where races were held under 

 the auspices of the Lords Melbourne and their 

 family ; Mr. Maynard is he who ran his chestnut colt 

 Smith for a Jockey Club Plate in 1786 ; Mr. Mellish 

 is, of course, the famous Colonel Mellish, of whom ar.d 

 his ruin everybody has heard, and who won a Jockey 

 Club Plate with Staveley in 1806 ; Mr. Neville (after- 

 wards Lord Braybrooke in 1825, and editor of ' Pepys's 

 Journal ') is the Hon. Richard, who won a Jockey 



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