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to the Jockey Challenge Cup in 1768), of Aske, York- 

 shire, is presumed to have been the gentleman who 

 was created a Baronet in 1762, died in 1781, and was 

 succeeded by Sir Thomas (created Baron Dundas, of 

 Aske, in 1794), progenitor of the Earls of Zetland, of 

 whom and their ' spots ' and their connection with the 

 Jockey Club more will have to be said hereafter. Sir 

 Lawrance, who, as Mr. Dundas, is believed to have 

 been Commissary-General, owned Bay Pdchmond, alias 

 Sarpedon (under which name he ran in Jamaica), by 

 Feather, and, being confederated with the famous Mr. 

 Peregrine Wentworth, ran Carabineer (a name, in the 

 form of Carbineer, borne in recent times by a celebrity 

 of the Zetland stud), brother to the celebrated York- 

 shire Jenny, in 1774 and 1775. Sir Lawrance bred 

 Pontac, sire of Sir Thomas (i.e., Sir T. [Dundas]), with 

 which horse the Prince of Wales won the Derby in 1788. 

 Sir M. Featherstonehaugh or Fetherstonhaugh, 

 which seems to be the more correct form, ran for the 

 Jockey Club Plates won by Lord Chedworth's chestnut 

 filly in 1757, and by Mr. Francis Naylor's Sally in 

 1759 respectively, and had a stud-farm at Uppark, 

 Sussex, where his son Sir Henry (of whom more anon) 

 was born. He likewise possessed the estates of 

 Haringbrook, Essex, and Fetherstonhaugh Castle, 

 Northumberland. He was, moreover, F.K.S., and 

 M.P. for Portsmouth, and altogether a great person- 

 age. The name is commonly met with in the abbre- 

 viated form, Fetherston, and it might naturally be 



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