52 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



Lord Eglinton of the list is made out to have 

 been Alexander Montgomery (Montgomerie) , the 

 tenth Earl, who succeeded to the title in 1729, and 

 was killed in a scuffle in 1769 by Mungo Campbell, 

 an excise officer, with whom a dispute had arisen 

 about a question of trespassing upon the Earl's 

 property with fire-arms. Lord Eglinton's name 

 appears in the very earliest published list of members 

 who (in 1758) signed a resolution of the Jockey Club. 

 He was not so famous on the Turf as his descendant 

 of ' Tournament ' memory, but he bred and ran some 

 good horses, and was the owner of the untrained 

 Omar (by Lord Godolphin's Arabian), sire of Sir C. 

 Bunbury's Nobody, Mr. O'Kelly's Miss Spindleshanks 

 (dam of Soldier, Corporal, Gunpowder, &c), and at 

 one time owned Cripple, sire of the celebrated Gim- 

 crack (not bred, however, by Lord Eglinton). This 

 was the Lord Eglinton who introduced ' Bozzy ' (Dr. 

 Johnson's biographer) to the Jockey Club in 1762, as 

 will appear hereafter. It is, of course, from the 

 second title of this earldom that the celebrated horse 

 Ardrossan received its name. 



The Lord Farnham of the list is Bobert Maxwell, 

 the second Baron, who succeeded to that title in 1759, 

 was created Viscount in 1761 and Earl in 1763, and 

 died in 1779, when he was succeeded in the barony 

 by his brother Barry, who was created Viscount in 

 1781 and Earl in 1785, and died in 1800. The title 

 became extinct in 1823. 



