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Earl of Glasgow when he came in to more than an 

 opulent rent roll. A devotee of hunting, racing, and 

 shooting, he was always in a position to enjoy them to 

 his heart's content. He lived amongst choice spirits, 

 like the Marquis of Queensberry, Lord Kennedy, Sir 

 William and Sir John Heron Maxwell, and Sir James 

 Boswell, of whom it is said they drank " claret enough 

 to exhaust a chateau." He was Master of the Renfrew- 

 shire Hounds, he rode the best of horses, and went as 

 straight as a gun-barrel to hounds. At the outset of 

 his career he raced as Lord Kelburne, and to this day 

 the name of " Kelburne " is writ in flint stones in the 

 courtyard of Glasgow House at Middleham. This in- 

 scription was embedded in 1832. 



When he began his career as an owner of racehorses, 

 he engaged James Smith, of Middleham, who pre- 

 viously had been private trainer for Lord Stratlimore 

 and the Duke of Cleveland. On every racecourse in 

 Yorkshire, in Scotland, and even at Newmarket 

 Lord Kelburne's figure, in the green coat, steel 

 buttons, and white ducks, became remarkable, if not 

 notorious. Of an impetuous, choleric, high-minded, 

 generous, rash, and, at times, unfeeling disposition, his 

 wayward will would not be brooked, and it was 

 remarked of him that he changed his trainers with the 

 new moon. James Smith was succeeded by Mr. 

 Dawson, father of the late Matthew Dawson, the Heath 

 House trainer; indeed, nearly all the Dawsons were 

 under his employment. Succeeding them was William 

 Dilly. After Dilly's departure from Middleham to take 

 charge of Mr. Payne's and Mr. Greville's horses in the 

 South, Lord Glasgow divided his team of horses, a 

 moiety remaining with R. I' Anson in the North, and the 

 other being sent to Alec Taylor at Fyfield. Brief was 



