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out hunting, when only just of age). It may be well to 

 write a few words of explanation on the subject. The 

 first Duke of Dorset, then, created 1720, and Lord- 

 Lieutenant of Ireland (1730-37 and 1750-55), 

 had several sons, of whom the third was George 

 Sackville (better but not more favourably known as 

 that strange compound of gallantry and apparent 

 cowardice, Lord George Germaine, the name and title 

 which he had been permitted to assume), who (died 

 April 1785) was created Viscount Sackville ; and his son, 

 the second Viscount and fifth and last Duke of Dorset, 

 died unmarried on July 29, 1843, when all the honours 

 became extinct. He was temporary owner or nomi- 

 nator of many good horses, including Kitt Carr, 

 Silver, Magic, Spread-Eagle (Sir F. Standish's, winner 

 of the Derby in 1795), Commodore, Expectation (won 

 a Jockey Club Plate in 1800), and Dick Andrews 

 (w.o. for a Jockey Club Plate in 1803). In 1814 he 

 ran Hocus-pocus (Lord Suffield's) under his title of 

 Lord Sackville, and in 1815 of Duke of Dorset, under 

 which title he appears in the Jockey Club list of 1835. 

 It is of the poor fourth young Duke (whether a 

 member of the Jockey Club or not there is no saying, 

 as he only came of age in November 1814 and 

 met with his fatal accident in Ireland in February 

 1815) that the story is told about ' the gross irreligion 

 of sportsmen.' It appears that he was placed by 

 Lord Powerscourt and other friends on one of those 

 hard and slippery couches (of which many of us must 



