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hereafter, a member of the Jockey Club at one time), 

 ' the old General ' was one of the very plebeian 

 members of the Jockey Club, having in early life 

 (according to that same somewhat doubtful authority) 

 ' carried cheeses on his head ' to his father's cus- 

 tomers. The 'old General' kept his 'Arabian,' and 

 ran the laborious Eosaletta and many good horses 

 and mares. According to Pigott, the son of the ' old 

 General,' called the 'young General,' was also a 

 member of the Jockey Club — at least he is included in 

 the personages of Pigott's scurrilous ' Jockey Club ' ; 

 but there is no tangible proof of his membership, 

 which, however, is by no means improbable. 



Mr. Smith-Baery is made out to have been the 

 Hon. John Smith-Barry (whose son, Mr. James Hugh 

 Smith-Barry, born 1748, bore a name which tells 

 still more plainly the story of his father's alliance with 

 an heiress), youngest son of the fourth or fifth Earl 

 of Barrymore, and a relative (whether uncle or other) 

 of the three brothers, ' Cripplegate,' ' Newgate,' and 

 ' Hellgate,' already mentioned. Mr. Sraith-Barry, 

 as has been said, married one of the two co -heiresses 

 of the millionaire Mr. Hugh Smith, and is described 

 as of Foaty Island, county Clare, and of Marbury 

 Hall, Belmont, Cheshire. He seems to have been 

 born about 1725, and to have died about 1784 ; and 

 to have been a breeder, owner, and runner of race- 

 horses on a large scale and with no little success — 

 witness All Fours (by Kegulus), Amaranthus (by Old 



