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CHAPTER XVI. 



THE FIFTH DUKE OF RICHMOND, K.G. 



FIFTEEN chapters of this work have thus far been 

 mainly devoted to the racing career of Lord George 

 Bentinck, and to its bearings upon his social, polit- 

 ical, and sporting character. It will now be my 

 duty to offer to readers who have had the patience 

 to follow me thus far, a few reminiscences of Lord 

 George's racing confederate, the fifth Duke of 

 Richmond. 



My father and I had the honour to serve his 

 Grace and never was there a better or a kinder 

 master before Lord George ever entered the 

 Goodwood stable as an owner of race-horses trained 

 therein, and long after he had left it. I have no 

 hesitation in asserting that some of the Duke's 

 most valuable qualities were not without their 

 influence upon Lord George, who never showed 

 himself greater than in 1848, when Surplice, 

 whom he had bred, won the Derby for Lord 

 Clifden. From many things that I have seen 



