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two documents issued by the Club in 1767, though 

 there remain few, if any, memorials of his horse- 

 .racrng or horse-breeding. He was born 1724, succeeded 

 to the title (which was created in 1730 only) 1736, 

 and died 1812, having married, in 1756, the daughter 

 and co-heir of Ambrose Crawley, .Esq. (perhaps an 

 ancestor of Mr. J. S. Crawley, a member of the Jockey 

 Club at the present time) , alderman of London. This 

 noble lord is mentioned by Horace Walpole among 

 the millionaires of his day, and as a munificent patron 

 of art. He was a great purchaser of pictures, and 

 perhaps they were more in his line than racehorses. 

 He was at one time First Lord of the Bedchamber 

 and Groom of the Stole, but he was not conspicuous 

 among the personages (such as Lord Clermont, Lord 

 William Manners, Mr. ' Jockey ' Vernon, and others) 

 whom Horace "Walpole superciliously describes as 

 ' grooms.' 



The Lord Baeeymoee of the list appears to have 

 been the sixth Earl, who died in 1773, and who was 

 either a brother, or at any rate a near relative, of the 

 Hon. John Smith-Barry (of whom more hereafter), 

 himself a member of the Jockey Club. This Earl was 

 among the subscribers (1768) to the Jockey Club 

 Challenge Cup, and owned and ran several good 

 horses, including Senlis (by Bajazet), purchased out 

 of the ' Culloden ' Duke of Cumberland's stud. The 

 title became extinct in 1823, and it may, therefore, 

 be well to deal at once with the sixth Earl's successors 



