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Grey Hautboy), that died at Bolton Hall, Yorkshire, 

 1736, aged thirty-one, which Duke was the father of 

 the Duke who shot himself in 1765, not from any 

 cause connected with the Turf, but, it was said, from 

 dudgeon at not receiving a certain honourable office 

 on which he had set his heart. 



The Duke of Cleveland (who died in 1812, aged 

 seventy-five) of course lived into the times at which the 

 annual official list of ' Members of the Jockey Club ' 

 began to be published, and duly figures therein, but 

 he (first Duke of the new creation in 1833, who was 

 successively Lord Barnard, Earl of Darlington, Mar- 

 quess of Cleveland, and Duke of Cleveland and Baron 

 Baby) was a member of the Club as early certainly 

 as 1797, for in that year he, as Lord Darlington, won 

 a Jockey Club Plate with St. George. He was for 

 fifty years a shining light of the Turf (though he was 

 even greater perhaps in ' scarlet ' than in ' silk,' with 

 the hounds of Baby than with the racehorses at 

 Doncaster, where, as Marquess of Cleveland, he won 

 the St. Leger with Chorister in 1831). He, of course, 

 was the Lord Darlington who won the Two Thousand 

 with Cwrw in 1812, under circumstances which, as 

 related by the late Admiral Bous, create a curious 

 impression, and which will receive due notice here- 

 after. He is said to have paid any price that anybody 

 chose to ask for a horse that he was set upon (in the 

 figurative sense of the word) ; he was temporary 

 owner of almost countless good horses (including 



