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who won a Jockey Club Plate with the celebrated 

 Drone in 1785, and again in 1786, but is of course 

 overshadowed among the members of the Jockey Club 

 by his * big brother ' who ' belonged to ' Gohanna. 



Having thus established their membership of the 

 Jockey Club in the case of all these gentlemen, we 

 may proceed to say a little more about some of 

 them. 



Let us single out Messrs. Charles Pigott and Con- 

 stantine Jennings, because both, though in different 

 ways, were ' shocking examples ' of the Jockey Club ; 

 because both belonged rather, perhaps, to the * First 

 Period ' than to the ' Second Period/ though proofs of 

 their membership are found in the latter; and because 

 they were evidently acquaintances as well as fellows 

 in misfortune. 



Mr. Charles Pigott is the poor gentleman whose 

 decease was announced in a public paper after the 

 following fashion in 1794 : ' On the 27th of May, 

 Charles Pigott, Esq., commonly called "Louse" Pigott. 

 . . . Interred in the family vault, Chetwynd, Shrop- 

 shire.' Old Mr. Kobert Pigott (whose life, as we have 

 seen, was made the subject of a disputed bet, which 

 was decided in a court of law by no less an authority 

 than the great Lord Mansfield), of Chetwynd Park, 

 Salop, and Chesterton Hall, Hunts, left three sons 

 (and four daughters), the Eobert Pigott already dealt 

 with in the ' First Period,' the Charles Pigott with 

 whom we are engaged at present, and William Pigott 



