210 RECORDS AND REMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



CHAPTER XVII. 



THE EAEL OF MARCH. 



The Earl of March, son and heir of the sixth Duke 

 of Richmond and Gordon, was born on the 27th of 

 December, 1845, educated at Eton, travelled, and 

 joined the Grenadier Guards in 1865. 



He represented West Sussex in the House of 

 Commons from 1868 till 1885, when the constituencies 

 were rearranged. He was then returned for the 

 Chichester or south-west division of Sussex, after a 

 contest, by the overwhelming majority of 2290. In 

 1879 he was elected a member, and in 1882 a steward, 

 of the Jockey Club for three years. His stewardship 

 was so ably discharged that in 1888 and again in 

 1892 he was re-elected to that responsible office. At 

 the present moment there is no English sportsman 

 more universally respected. 



His capacity for business, like that of his father, 

 is of no ordinary kind. In 1879 and for a few years 

 his Lordship owned and ran some race-horses. 

 Fortune, however, was not greatly propitious, although 



