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CHAPTER VIII 



THE LORDS 



Lord Belgrave (second Earl Grosvenor), whose father, 

 the first Earl, the great racer and bettor, lived well 

 into the ' Second Period' (as he died in 1802), won a 

 Jockey Club Plate with Labrador in 1817, as Lord 

 Grosvenor, but he will be deferred till the ' Third 

 Period' (since it was then that, as the first Marquess 

 of Westminster, he became most prominent on the 

 Turf). 



Lord G. H. Cavendish (who was third and last 

 for a Jockey Club Plate with Furbisher to Lord 

 Verulam with Vitellina and the Hon. C. Wyndham with 

 a chestnut colt by Phantom in 1825) was a younger 

 brother of the fifth Duke of Devonshire, and is said 

 to have come in for the greater part of his uncle 

 Frederick's immense fortune. He ' went a-head ' in 

 his primrose days, but he appears to have had every- 

 body's good word. He was born in 1754, and soon 

 developed a taste for gambling, but bore himself so 

 coolly and discreetly that he was considered proof 

 against danger, and he was so beyond suspicion of 



