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the family of the racing Earls of Eglinton ; in the 

 Duke of Richmond (as a descendant of ' Old Rowley ') ; 

 in Lord Rosebery (of a family * full of running 

 blood,' par les femmes) ; in Mr. Leopold de Rothschild 

 (through Baron Lionel, alias Mr. Acton, the owner of 

 Sir Bevys, and also through the more famous Baron 

 Meyer, of Mentmore) ; in the Duke of St. Albans 

 (through ' Old Rowley ' again) ; in the Earl of Suffolk 

 and Berkshire (a Howard, descended from Bernard 

 Howard, it is understood, who was a sort of Admiral 

 Rous in the days of ' Old Rowley ') ; in Mr. Montagu 

 Tharp (who, though an honorary member only, and 

 not known upon the Turf, has his estate of Chippen- 

 ham Park, Cambs., handy for Newmarket, and is 

 great-grandson of the Mr. John Tharp who raced 

 as long ago as 1799 at Newmarket with the epony- 

 mous horse Chippenham, and other horses) ; in the 

 Duke of Westminster (from the Sir Richard Grosvenor, 

 who was the first Earl, a member of the Jockey Club 

 at the beginning, and adopter of the popular ' yellow 

 and black cap ') ; in the Earl of Westmorland (whose 

 title is that of a Master of the Horse in 1796, to go 

 back no farther, and one of whose ancestors married 

 the daughter of a Bristol merchant bearing the 

 racing name of Swymmer, perhaps the Antony Lang- 

 ley Swymmer whom we have encountered among 

 the early members of the Jockey Club, or a relation 

 of his, and who 1 imself married into the racing 

 family of Howe) ; in General Owen Williams (if, by 



