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and who (in consequence, it is supposed) remained 

 unmarried all his life (as also Miss Pelham herself). 



The Duke of Devonshire of the list is a title which 

 covers two different persons, the fourth and the fifth 

 Dukes, whose family name of Cavendish has been con- 

 nected with the history of horse-flesh and horseman- 

 ship most honourably from the earliest times of the 

 English Turf ; for it was a Cavendish (but then a Duke 

 of Newcastle), who taught our Charles the Second (the 

 true Father of our Turf) to ride, and wrote the cele- 

 brated treatise entitled ' Methode et Invention nouvelle 

 de dresser les Chevaux ' ; and another Cavendish (but 

 this time a Duke of Devonshire) is mentioned in the 

 old records as running at Newmarket against ' Mr. 

 Comptroller,' Lord Wharton, Mr. Tregonwell Framp- 

 ton, and others, in the reign of William the Third, 

 the dukedom of Devonshire dating from 1694. 



The fourth Duke, called up to the House of Lords 

 in 1751, during his father's lifetime, as Baron Caven- 

 dish, succeeded to the ducal title in 1755, and died in 

 1764, so that he appears among the members of the 

 Jockey Club as Marquess of Hartington (his title of 

 courtesy), as Lord Cavendish, and as Duke of Devon- 

 shire, though it is all one single gentleman wrapped 

 up in three titles. He came, as we have seen, of a 

 horse-loving and racing line, and to a progenitor of 

 his (whether father or other), belonged the famous 

 * Devonshire ' Childers, better known as Flying Childers 

 (bred by Colonel Childers, of Carr House, near Don- 



