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Tigris in 1815, and owner of Jerboa (by Gohanna), and 

 most of her progeny, though not without claims to 

 rank among the benefactors of the Turf and orna- 

 ments of the Jockey Club, cannot of course compare 

 in those respects with his two famous sons, the second 

 Earl of Stradbroke and the memorable Captain (and 

 Admiral) Kous. As for the racing strain in the 

 family, witness a Major Eous who runs against the 

 notorious Mr. Tregonwell Frampton at Newmarket 

 in 1721. There is reason to believe that they do err 

 who attribute to this family the origin of the expres- 

 sion ' Bravo, Eous ! ' (tracing it to the Admiral's feat 

 with his ship Pique) ; one Kous, who kept the Eagle 

 Tavern in the City Koad, and performed to the great 

 delight of the vulgar at his theatre there, is said to 

 have been the true first great cause of the popular 

 cry, now almost obsolete, and of the interpretation 

 placed upon the letters 'O.P.Q.E.,' namely, '0 par- 

 ticularly queer Eous.' 



The second Earl of Stradbroke, John Edward 

 Cornwallis Eous (born 1794, died 1886, at the great 

 age of 91-92), was a member of the Jockey Club long- 

 before he appears on the list of 1835 in company with 

 his brother, Captain the Hon. H. Eous ; in fact, they 

 are both expressly stated in print and on good 

 authority to have been elected members of the Club 

 in 1821, (luring their father's lifetime. The second 

 Earl was probably greater as a patron of coursing 

 than of horse-racing, though he won the Two Thou- 



