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for their elegance. ' Cripplegate ' is said to have been 

 succeeded by his brother ' Newgate ' (Henry), who 

 seems to have been an inferior edition of himself (and 

 ran third for the Oaks with Miranda in 1808, though 

 there is no proof that he was a member of the Jockey 

 Club), and died in 1823, in which year the title is 

 said to have become extinct, so that ' Hellgate ' 

 (Augustus), the other brother, must either have died 

 previously and never succeeded to the earldom at all, 

 or must have come between ' Cripplegate ' and ' New- 

 gate,' instead of after the latter. 



It was characteristic of ' Cripplegate ' that he 

 seemed, according to report, to have been quite dis- 

 posed to admit the claim, when he was told that the 

 notorious Madame du Barry (Barri) pretended to be 

 connected (through her husband, of course) with the 

 noble family of Barrymore ; for, even had he objected 

 to her and her character and her genealogy, he was 

 shrewd enough to know that she personally counted 

 for absolutely nothing in the connection, such as it 

 was, and that her part in the said connection was only 

 nominal. 



The Lord Bolingbrokb of the list is the second 

 Viscount, who succeeded his celebrated uncle (Henry 

 St. John, created Viscount Bolingbroke in 1712) in 

 1751, and died in 1787. His membership of the 

 Jockey Club (of which, by his horse-racing, his betting, 

 and his divorce from the lady who had been Lady 

 Diana Spencer, and afterwards became the more 



