1891 DEPARTED MEMBEKS 267 



(Sir K.), Synge (Col.), Tharp (Montagu), T. Thornhill, 

 C. Towneley (Col.), J. B. Udney (Col.), Vansittart (H.), 

 Villiers (Hon. A. and Hon. F.), Vyner (H. F. Clare), 

 H. S. Waddington, K. Watt, Major Wickham, W. Wi- 

 gram, Williams (Col. and Gen. Owen), C. Wilson, Wood 

 (Gen. Mark), G. Wyndham (Col.), Yates (General). 



Of these personages many * overlap ' from the 

 previous period and have already been accounted for, 

 and many, being members of the Club at present, may 

 be deferred for awhile. Of the rest, some may be 

 passed by altogether ; upon others, a little space will 

 be bestowed, either because they are historical figures, 

 or because they achieved some special distinction 

 upon the Turf, or because they were ' shocking ex- 

 amples,' or for some similar or dissimilar reason. 



Of the Koyal and Imperial personages, the 

 foreigners are, for the most part if not entirely, 

 * honorary,' and cannot be expected to have done 

 much for the English Turf. Still, the Kings of Hol- 

 land (Netherlands) and Princes of Orange though 

 there may remain but an indistinct remembrance of 

 the Orange Plate are commemorated by the Nassau 

 Stakes at Goodwood, and a King of Holland, as we 

 have seen, came to the front at the beginning of the 

 present reign (when a young queen could not very 

 well, even had she been inclined, become the avowed 

 patroness of such an institution as the Jockey Club, and 

 was married to a consort whose inclinations certainly 

 did not lie that way), and gave the Jockey Club that 



