94 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1750- 



Sir Simeon Stuart (or Steuart, or Stewart), 

 whose name appears among the signatories of a 

 Jockey Club ' agreement ' of February 10, 1771, must 

 have been the third Baronet of Hartley Mauduit, 

 Hants. He was M.P. for Hampshire, and he is 

 apparently the (then Mr.) Stuart who ran the in- 

 dicative grey colt Hartley (telling of the above-men- 

 tioned place in Hampshire) at Odiham in 1758. He 

 bred both the said Hartley and a filly (by Babraham, 

 son of Whirligig, by Bajazet) from the Crab mare 

 that was the dam of Lord Bolingbroke's (afterwards 

 Mr. Quick's) Charlotte (by Blank), and the same 

 Lord's Doge (by Begulus). Sir Simeon, however, was 

 not among the most prominent racing and breeding 

 members of the Jockey Club, and seems to have inclined 

 (though to say so may be a breach of the ' de mortuis 

 nil nisi bonum ' precept) towards ' schedule g ' and 

 the ' cocktail.' But his were days when members of 

 the Jockey Club delighted to ride their own hunters, 

 even on the race-course, where, nowadays, it is a rare 

 sight to see a member of the Jockey Club in the pig- 

 skin, the exhibition not being encouraged by the Club. 



Sir Charles Turner of the list must have been a 

 simple ' Mister ' at the time his signature was appended 

 to five resolutions of the Jockey Club in 1771, of 

 Kirkleatham, Yorkshire. He was created a Baronet 

 in 1782 and died in 1783. He represented York 

 City in Parliament from 1768 to the day of his death, 

 was one of the great ' Northern lights ' of the Turf, 



