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Duke of Kingston), Esq., of The Hoo, Hertfordshire, 

 one of whose family is mentioned in Walpole's 

 1 Letters ' as among the founders of the Dilettanti 

 Club, and another of whose family was classed with 

 Lord Wilton, Mr. Delme-EadclirTe, and others, as a 

 great ' gentleman-jockey ' in the first half of this cen- 

 tury. The Mr. Brand here in question is a particu- 

 larly interesting member of the Jockey Club, because 

 by his marriage with the Hon. Gertrude Roper (who 

 succeeded her brother and became Baroness Dacre in 

 1794 — after Mr. Brand's death, however, in the very 

 same year) he transmitted the blood of the famous 

 * patriot ' John Hampden to his descendant, the pre- 

 sent H. B. W. Brand, the first Viscount Hampden 

 and twenty-third Baron Dacre, who was formerly the 

 distinguished Speaker of the House of Commons. 

 Mr. Brand in his horse-racing was aided and abetted 

 by his wife, then the Hon. Mrs. Brand, who, for 

 instance, won a match for 100 guineas with her, or 

 her husband's, bay mare Baccelli (so called after a 

 famous ballet-dancer of those times), at Newmarket 

 First October Meeting, 1776, against Lady Bamp- 

 fylde (ancestress of the Lords Poltimore) with Fortune- 

 hunter. As for Glow-worm, with whom Mr. Brand 

 ran second for a Jockey Club Plate in 1776, he was a 

 very notable horse, and was sold by Mr. Brand to the 

 popular French Marquis de Conflans, by whom he 

 was imported into France, where he was distinguished 

 both on the race-course (beating King Pepin, Barbary, 



