212 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1773— 



Club who protested in 1837 against the sale of the 

 Pioyal Stud at Hampton Court. 



Lord Tavistock is the Marquess of Tavistock who 

 ran his mare Leeway for a Jockey Club Plate in 1828, 

 and he will be better dealt within the ' Third Period ' 

 as Duke of Bedford (the seventh, nephew of the fifth, 

 the great racing Duke), to which title he succeeded on 

 the death of his father in 1839. 



Lord Verulam (first Earl) won a Jockey Club Plate 

 with Vitellina (by Comus) in 1825, and seems to have 

 aired his new-fledged title (created 1815) first of all 

 in 1819 at Ascot, running his roan filly Vaharina 

 for the Wokingham Stakes. This Lord Yerulam (a 

 Grimston) has nothing, of course, but his title and 

 his property at Gorhambury Park, near St. Albans, 

 Herts, in common with the celebrated Lord Bacon 

 (who, as if he had not worked sufficiently in his own 

 line, has been credited in our own day with the 

 achievements of the voluminous William Shakespeare) ; 

 but he deserves to be commemorated as a public bene- 

 factor for instituting races at Gorhambury, which at 

 one time bade fair to rival Goodwood (bar the Trundle 

 Hill and the scenery generally). Gorhambury came 

 to the family through their ancestor Sir Harbottle (or 

 Airbottle) Grimston (' barrow-knighted ' in the reign 

 of James the First), descended, it is said, from a 

 de Grimston who ' came over with the Conqueror ' ; 

 but the estate is, of course, called after Robert de 

 Gorham, with whose four-legged namesake Lord 



