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to the ' fly ' played by the last Marquess of Hastings). 

 Mr. (the Hon. George) Watson, a relation of Lord Rock- 

 ingham, Lord Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Peregrine Went- 

 worth, was notable on the Turf and as a member of 

 the Jockey Club for winning the One Thousand and 

 the Oaks in 1817 with Neva (by Cervantes). Mr. 

 (Christopher) Wilson (who is said to have been a son 

 of Christopher Wilson, Bishop of Bristol) was one of 

 the most notable and popular members of the Jockey 

 Club in his own day or in any other, and he is the 

 more entitled to special attention because there were, 

 besides himself, at least three other Wilsons on the 

 Turf at the same time with him (namely, Mr. Richard 

 Wilson of the Bildeston Stud Farm, Suffolk, who had 

 been bailiff to the Duke of Northumberland, had a 

 legacy of 40,OOOZ. left him by Lord Chedworth, had 

 little or no success upon the Turf, and died in 1835, 

 aged seventy-four ; Major and Colonel Robert Wilson, 

 better known as the eccentric Lord Berners, who won 

 the Derby with Phosphorus ' on three legs ' in 1837, 

 and died the next year at the age of seventy-six ; and 

 Mr. William Wilson, the. original owner of Duchess of 

 Lieven, afterwards simply Duchess, winner of the 

 St. Leger in 1816 for Sir Bellingham Graham ; but 

 none of these three not even Lord Berners seems 

 to have been a member of the Jockey Club). Mr. 

 Christopher Wilson belonged both to the North (where 

 he dispensed a good old English hospitality at Oxton 

 Hall, near Tadcaster, or Ledstone Hall, or elsewhere) 



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