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persons (v. ' State Trials ') named George Stratton, 

 Henry Brooke, Charles Flayer, and George Mackay, 

 and perhaps others, were called to account and fined 

 1,0002. apiece. His membership of the Jockey Club 

 is proved from the fact that he ran an unnamed bay 

 colt for a Jockey Club Plate in 1773, which was won 

 by Mr. Vernon's Giantess. At his death the peerage 

 apparently became extinct, as he left no legitimate 

 male children. He, however, had a natural son, who 

 became Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.B., Admiral of the White 

 (died in 1875, aged eighty- two), and two brothers, 

 Hugh (who, curiously enough, was also an admiral), 

 and (the eldest of the three) General Sir Bobert, Bart., 

 whose son, General Sir George, was also a light of the 

 Turf. Sir George, who was born in 1766 and died in 

 1841, raised the 130th Begiment, with which he served 

 in the Peninsula, and was father of the late Sir 

 Bobert Pigot, of Patshull, who died in June 1891 , at 

 ninety years of age, and had owned some successful 

 race-horses, including Essedarius, with which horse 

 he challenged for the Newmarket "Whip in 1851, 

 having run second with him for the Cesarewitch the 

 year before. It was probably Sir George (v. ' Stud 

 Book,' vol. ii. p. 53) who owned the Patshull Arabian 

 which stood at Patshull about 1800-1, and he was 

 very likely himself a member of the Jockey Club. 



Lord Portmore must have been Charles Colyer, 

 the second Earl, who succeeded unexpectedly to the 

 title (which became extinct in 1835) in 1729 : his 



