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1808, whereby it is said that 37,000Z. a year fell to 

 his nephew, the newly-created Earl Grey. That Sir 

 Henry was a member of the Jockey Club appears 

 from his signature to the Jockey Club resolution of 

 1758 (signed by thirty-one members) ; and that he 

 raced occasionally is attested by Fox, winner in his 

 name of a Royal Plate as early as 1755 at Ipswich, 

 &c, but he is not among the most prominent racing 

 members of the Jockey Club. 



Sir John Kaye, another among the signatories of 

 the Jockey Club document in 1758, is the Baronet 

 (descended, says heraldic tradition, from Sir Kaye or 

 Kay, a knight of the Round Table) who was high 

 sheriff for the County of York in 1761 and died un- 

 married in 1789, of Denby Grange, seven miles from 

 Wakefield, six from Huddersfield, and thirty- seven 

 from York. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by 

 his brother, Dean of Lincoln, the Very Rev. Sir 

 Richard, who died s.p. in 1809, when the baronetcy 

 expired, and in the estates by his kinsman Lister 

 Kaye, Esquire, who was created a Baronet in 1812, 

 and became Sir John P. Lister Kaye. So it is made 

 out, but the genealogical cooks appear to have spoilt 

 the genealogical broth a little in some of the obituaries. 

 At any rate Sir John Kaye was one of the great 

 Northern lights of the Turf and of the Jockey Club. 

 He bred Frenzy and her son Phenomenon (winner of 

 the St. Leger in 1783) ; and he bred and owned for a 

 time the famous mare Perdita (by Herod) , clam of the 



