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although his right to it was disputed, and it now appears 

 to go with the dukedom of Athole, whereof the holder 

 * sits as Earl Strange.' It was this insistent Lord 

 Strange, according to the authorities, who introduced 

 the name and personality of the Smiths into the perhaps 

 equally well known but certainly less prolific family of 

 the Stanleys, by marrying one of the daughters and 

 co-heiresses (Mr. John Barry, of the Earls of Barry- 

 more' s family marrying the other or an other) of a 

 certain Hugh Smith, millionaire by trade, of Weald 

 House, Essex. He thus prudently prepared the way 

 for the profuse extravagance of his son, heir and suc- 

 cessor, the twelfth Earl of Derby, by becoming the 

 sire of whom he did scarcely less for the Turf, and a 

 great deal more for cock-fighting, than if he had been 

 the sire of the great Sir Peter (Teazle) himself. 



Lord Waldegrave is James Waldegrave, second 

 Earl, born 1714 (or 1715), succeeded to the title 1741, 

 and died (of small-pox) 1763. His name is appended 

 to the first public document issued by the Jockey 

 Club in 1758 ; and he ran for Jockey Club Plates in 

 1760 and 1761. He was not one of the most promi- 

 nent owners and breeders, though he owned some very 

 fair horses, and in his stud, for a while, was the 

 famous mare (Begulus) Mixbury. He left at his death 

 a literary contribution in the form of ' Historical 

 Memoirs ' (1754-7). He was in many respects a very 

 estimable personage, who, in spite of his protesting 

 that he was ' only an inoffensive man of pleasure and 



