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the honour of riding His Royal Highness's horses at 

 Bibury. The Prince, with whom he was on terms of 

 intimate friendship, had the greatest faith in Delme- 

 RadcHffe's jockeyship, and that his confidence was 

 justified is proved by the fact that on several occasions 

 the young Hussar beat those masters of the art, Sam 

 Chifihey and Frank Buckle. He was, indeed, admitted 

 to be the best gentleman-rider of his day. For many 

 years he was Master of the Horse to George the Fourth 

 and William the Fourth. 



His son Ferderick Peter followed faithfully in the 

 paternal footsteps, and, after leaving Eton and joining the 

 Grenadier Guards, found scope for his prowess in the 

 saddle as a gentleman jockey, in which capacity he held 

 his own against Lord Wilton and all the best amateurs 

 of the day. 



Moreover, he early made his mark as a pigeon 

 shot. He was one of the original members of the Red 

 House Club at Battersea, which was the Hurlingham of 

 its time, and was reckoned to be the very best of the 

 ' young ones.' On one occasion he won the ' All 

 England Stakes,' after five days' contest, from such 

 cracks as Lord Kennedy, George Osbaldeston, Captain 

 Horatio Ross, Colonel Anson, and in fact all the best 

 shots in England. It was young Delme-Radclifife who, 

 when a certain Mr Peareth, a dead shot, challenged the 

 members of the Red House, took up the glove on behalf 

 of the Club, when every one else had declined, and in a 

 match at twenty-five picked blue rocks for iJ^50 a side, 

 won brilliantly by killing twenty-four to Mr Peareth's 

 twenty-three. As a game shot, too, he was in the front 

 rank. 



Mr Delme-Radcliffe had been eight years in the 



