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owner or importer (or both) of the * Compton Arabian,' 

 or 'Compton Barb,' afterwards known as the ' Sedley 

 Grey Arabian.' So that he was a memorable member 

 of the Jockey Club. 



Mr. Conolly (signatory to an agreement of the 

 Jockey Club in 1771) was the Hon. and Eight Hon. 

 Thomas, whose wife was Lady Louisa (sister of Lady 

 Sarah Bunbury and Lady Holland). He belonged to 

 the family of the Earls of Longford (before the new 

 creation of 1785), and had a seat at Castletown, 

 Ireland. He was at the very head of the Irish Turf 

 in his day, winning Eoyal Plates beyond ordinary 

 powers of calculation with Horatius, Banker, Thumper, 

 Huncamunca, Aimwell, Bichmond, Arachne, Jolly 

 Bacchus, Courtezan, Demirep (a chestnut mare, foaled 

 1772, by Horatius), Fanny, Lenox, Medea, Miss 

 Fortune, St. Patrick, Shoemaker, Stumbler, Surveyor, 

 Tigress, &c, including the elegantly named Bum- 

 brusher. A very notable member of the Jockey Club. 



Mr. Coxe (or Cox, for the orthography even in 

 'Hansard' is unsettled), one of the signatories to a 

 Jockey Club Kesolution of 1767, is evidently Bichard 

 Hippisley Coxe, Esq., M.P., of the Somersetshire 

 Hippisley Coxes, of whom three at least would appear 

 to have been at one time among the encouragers of 

 the local races. He is no doubt the ' Dick Cox ' 

 (or Coxe) of ' Gilly ' Williams and George Selwyn. 

 Though he owned and ran a great many horses, some 

 of considerable note, he is not commemorated among 



