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The fourteenth EARL of DERBY, the * Rupert of 

 debate,' the Prime Minister, statesman, orator, 

 scholar (translator of the * Iliad'), and sportsman 

 (born 1799, died 1869), who could not win 'his 

 own ' Derby (even with Toxophilite in 1858) but did 

 succeed (as Lord Stanley) in winning the Oaks with 

 Iris in 1851 (the year he succeeded to the Earldom), 

 and the Two Thousand with Fazzoletto in 1856, as 

 well as the One Thousand in 1848 (as Lord Stanley) 

 with Canezou, and in 1860 with Sagitta, three years 

 after he had written his famous letter to the Stewards 

 of the Jockey Club (in 1857), calling upon the Club 

 to do their duty towards their neighbour, if he was a 

 cheating scoundrel. 



LORD GRANVILLE (the second Earl, born 1815, died 

 1891), is he who was so prominent as a statesman and 

 minister. He is said to have had a share in race- 

 horses very often, but never ran a racehorse in his 

 own name ; though, as a Leveson-Gower, great-grand- 

 son of the Earl of Gower, who was a member of the 

 Jockey Club in 1753, and bred the famous Gower 

 stallion, he belonged to a family celebrated as breeders 

 and runners of great racehorses, and as patrons of 

 the Turf in the earliest days of the Jockey Club. 



LORD GEORGE BENTINCK (third son of the fourth or 

 ' Tiresias ' Duke of Portland) and his brilliant career 

 both on the Turf and in the senate, with its melan- 

 choly termination ' by the visitation of God to wit, a 

 spasm of the heart ' (as the jury found), in one of his 



