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doubt, is retained (in a bracket) on grounds of high 

 probability, even if it cannot be said of hint, as Voltaire 

 said of the Prophet Habakkuk, 'il etait capable de 

 tout.' He was apparently Henry Stawell, son of the 

 Rt. Hon. Bilson Legge (who had married the lady 

 created Baroness Stawell in 1760), and he seems to have 

 succeeded to his mother's title in 1780, and to have 

 died in 1820, leaving no male issue, so that the title 

 became extinct, and, being unfamiliar accordingly, is 

 often written erroneously Stowell. His only daughter 

 had married in 1803 a son of Lord Sherborne, himself 

 a mighty racer. Lord Stawell was a very noticeable 

 Turfite, and won the Derby with Blucher in 1814. 

 He had a curious horse in Goldenleg (so-called because 

 it was a bay with one chestnut leg), which died on its 

 way to the Cape, about 1817, after having belonged 

 to Lord G. H. Cavendish ; and one of the few twins 

 (besides Mr. Rogers's Nicolo) that were ever worth a 

 rap in Elizabeth, by Waxy (ran unplaced for the 

 Oaks of 1803). 



Lord Stradbroke is a title which covers two per- 

 sonages, father and son, the first and the second 

 Earls. 



The first Earl (born 1750, died 1827), who ran 

 second for a Jockey Club Plate in 1822 with Incan- 

 tator to Lord Egremont with Centaur, and who is 

 better known on the Turf, as well as in ' Hansard,' 

 under the style and title of Sir John Rous, and after- 

 wards Lord Rous, winner of the Two Thousand with 



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