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was married twice, in 1754 and 1758, his second wife 

 being a daughter of Thomas Boothby Scrimshire, Esq., 

 of Tooley Park, Leicester, and a sister of ' Prince ' 

 Boothby, whose acquaintance we have already made. 

 Mr. Meynell, who was a friend of Horace Walpole's 

 (as we know from his ' Letters ') and of Sidney 

 Smith's, was the very famous Master of the Quorn 

 Hounds, which, together with Quorndon Hall, were 

 sold to Lord Sefton in 1800. Mr. Meynell, who died 

 in 1808, at the age of seventy-three, or, as others say, 

 eighty-one, was, of course, better known as a hunting 

 than as a racing and breeding member of the Jockey 

 Club, and is found running dogs, instead of horses, 

 sometimes at Newmarket. 



Mr. Naylor, who won a Jockey Club Plate in 1759 

 with his famous mare Sally, by Blank, and was a 

 signatory of Jockey Club ' Besolutions ' in 1758 and 

 1770, appears very little upon the scene. The name 

 seems to point to Mr. Francis Naylor, of Hurstmon- 

 ceux, Sussex, whose property is understood to have 

 passed to a Mr. Hare (son of a Bishop of Chichester), 

 who consequently assumed the name of Naylor. 

 Whether the family had aught in common with that 

 of the Mr. K. C. Naylor, so celebrated upon the Turf 

 in our own day, there is nothing in the records to 

 show. 



Mr. (also Captain and Admiral) Nonius, one of 

 the signatories of the Jockey Club document of 1758, 

 seems to have been Henry Norris, Vice-Admiral, who 



