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a brother of Archibald, ninth Duke of Hamilton (who 

 succeeded to the dukedom contrary to all reasonable 

 odds), to have been born in 1742, to have been an 

 officer in the Guards, to have had his signature 

 appended to a resolution of the Jockey Club in 1771, 

 when he was but twenty-nine years of age, to have 

 been a noted ' gentleman jockey ' (like others of his 

 family), to have been tolerably conspicuous on the 

 Turf, though completely overshadowed by the vic- 

 torious Lord Archibald, and to have died unmarried 

 in 1791. 



Lord William Manners, brother of the third Duke 

 of Eutland, seems to have been born about 1697, and 

 to have died in 1772, and, according to Horace Wal- 

 pole, to have been ' better known in the groom-porters' 

 annals than in the annals of Europe.' He is cer- 

 tainly very well known in the annals of the Turf, if 

 that is what the disdainful Horace means, and he 

 ran Fop (a gelding) for a Jockey Club Plate in 1755. 

 He owned, and probably bred, the brothers Chuff and 

 Poppet, by (Flying) Childers ; and he bred Tawney 

 (son of Mr. Panton's celebrated Crab and a Cyprus 

 Arabian mare), that was near leader in Lord March's 

 famous ' carriage-match ' at Newmarket in 1750. 



Lord March is, of course, James Douglas, Earl 

 of March and Euglen (born 1725, died 1810), whose 

 name appears in all the earliest transactions of the 

 Jockey Club (of which he was a most active member), 

 and who is almost too well known as ' Old Q.' (the 



