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"William's vital prospects and powers ; for the Baronet 

 is said to have disinherited his son, and to have left 

 his property to a nephew, Bethel Codrington (whose 

 Christian name has a decided smack of ' Little Bethel ' 

 and ■ Dissent '), in 1792. On the whole one would be 

 inclined to conclude that young Mr. Codrington be- 

 longed less to the bright ornaments of the Jockey 

 Club than to the category of ' shocking examples,' 

 which comprised the scurrilous Mr. ' Louse ' Pigott, 

 the unfortunate Mr. ' Chillaby ' Jennings, and some 

 others, and in more modern times the reckless Lord 

 Courtenay (afterwards Earl of Devon), and the 

 memorable young Marquess of Hastings, who ' be- 

 longed ' to Lady Elizabeth and The Earl. 



Mr. Compton is the (? Hon.) Mr. Henry Compton, 

 whose name is appended to the earliest published 

 Ptesolution of the Jockey Club in 1758, and he was 

 apparently identical with the gentleman of whom 

 ' Gilly ' Williams writes to Selwyn, in 1764 : ' Bully's 

 [Lord Bolingbroke's] affairs thrive in the hands of 

 Compton; he wins so much at Newmarket,' &c. He 

 was one of the noted ' gentlemen-jocks ' of his day, 

 and is found riding in 1758 against Mr. Anderson, 

 the Duke of Grafton, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Shafto, and 

 Lord Orford for a Sweepstakes at Newmarket, ' to be 

 rode by the owners or other gentlemen.' He was 

 evidently of Hampshire, how nearly related to the 

 Earls of Northampton or to the Comptons of Minstead 

 Manor does not signify. He was apparently the 



