36 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



bread of Brighthelmstone (now Brighton). The third 

 Duke ran Bounce for a Jockey Club Plate in 1761, 

 Lardon in 1762, &c, &c, and well represented his 

 grandfather, Charles Lennox, first Duke, who was 

 Master of the Horse 1681-2. 



It would be expected, naturally, that among the 

 Dukes wo aid be found the name of Butland, the family 

 which, to use the inversion of terms that is usual 

 among the ' horsey ' vulgar, ' belonged to ' Bonny 

 Black, the Cyprus Arabian, &c, &c. ; but there is no 

 actual proof forthcoming, however strong the prob- 

 ability is, that he who was Duke of Butland (the 

 third) at the period with which we are dealing, and 

 who, as a Master of the Horse at one time, certainly 

 might have been expected to belong to the Jockey 

 Club, was ever a member of the Club. Nor is there 

 any certain proof (though, again, there is strong 

 probability) that this Duke's eldest son, the popular 

 and gallant Marquess of Granby (who did not live to be 

 Duke), though he brought into the family by marriage 

 with the daughter of the ' proud ' Duke of Somerset 

 (to whom the estates had come from the Alingtons 

 [whence the present Lord Alington's title] par les 

 femmes) certain manors, including Cheveley, in the 

 neighbourhood of Newmarket, was ever a member 

 of the Jockey Club, as he might be expected to 

 have been, and probably, but not certainly, was. 

 Still the family was represented, as presently will 

 appear, very conspicuously indeed, by Lord W. 



