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but he left no issue, and died at the great age of 

 eighty-one in 1821. He was elder brother of the 

 famous caricaturist, Henry Bunbury (' H. B.,' pre- 

 ferred by Horace Walpole to the great Hogarth him- 

 self), who, as will appear hereafter, is also included 

 by a certain authority among the members of the 

 Jockey Club. The most notable, or, at any rate, the 

 most amusing, incident of Sir Charles's career in 

 Parliament, was probably during the delivery of his 

 maiden speech, when, being overcome by a sudden 

 diffidence (in which he resembled great men like 

 Addison, and even orators commended by Cicero), he 

 sank hurriedly down into his seat in such fashion as 

 to elicit from ' the late ingenious Charles Townshend ' 

 such a pun as that humourist would have been sure 

 to make with the substitution of an m for an n in the 

 name of Bunbury. 



The successes of Sir Charles upon the racecourse 

 and at the stud were very notable rather than 

 numerous. He won the very first Derby (with Diomed 

 in 1780) ; he was the first to win both Derby and 

 Oaks in one and the same year (with Eleanor in 1801, 

 enthusiastically described as ' a hell of a mare ') ; he 

 was the first to win both Derby and Two Thousand in 

 one and the same year (with Smolensko in 1813, a 

 great horse, jpreserved by an ingenious device from 

 being seized for a ' heriot ') ; and he bred but sold to 

 Lord Bolingbroke (who gave the name) the celebrated 

 Highflyer, the ' luck of Tattersall Hall.' 



