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* Queensberry,' said he, ' was always honourable in 

 his bets, only he was a far better jockey than any of 

 us.' In fact ' Old Q.' was, no doubt, a fair specimen 

 of what the authors of e Guesses at Truth ' call * the 

 Devil's gentleman ' ; that is, the conventional ' man 

 of honour.' It is to be feared, however, that neither 

 as Lord March nor as ' Old Q.' did he regard the 

 racehorse as much more than ' an instrument of 

 gambling.' In 1766 he writes to Selwyn : ' Bully 

 [Bolingbroke], Wilmington, and myself are left here 

 [at Newmarket] to reflect coolly on our losses and the 

 nonsense of keeping running -horses. . . . Scott has lost 

 three thousand.' 



Lord Molyneux is the Charles William Molyneux, 

 ninth Viscount Molyneux and first Earl of Sefton, 

 who apparently stepped into the shoes of his uncle (a 

 Jesuit, incapable of holding titles) in 1759, conformed 

 to the Established Church in 1768, was created Earl 

 of Sefton in 1771, and died in 1795. He appears 

 among the subscribers to the Jockey Club Challenge 

 Cup in 1768. He lived well into the times of the 

 Derby ; and, though he does not seem to have run 

 either for it or for the Oaks, his name is closely con- 

 nected with the great Epsom race by memories of 

 Sefton (Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's), the winner of it in 

 1878, and with Newmarket by Sefton House. 



Lord Orford (who appears among the signatories 

 of the earliest extant published ' Order ' of the Jockey 

 Club in 1758) is, of course, George Walpole, the 



