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T. Gascoigne (as we have seen), lost his only son 

 (who was a captain in the navy, and caught yellow 

 fever on service), in 1804 ; so that the title became 

 extinct. 



Sir Frederick Evelyn, who ran second to Lord 

 Sackville for a Jockey Club Plate in 1800, was one of 

 the oldest members of the Jockey Club when Pigott 

 sneered at his ' pitiful desire of excelling and distin- 

 guishing himself at a country race,' and at his having 

 ' acquired a particular and curious method of making , 

 a horse sink while measuring for a give-and-take plate.' 

 However this may have been, it is certain that Sir 

 Frederick was the owner of some good horses (in- 

 cluding Signal and Atom, both by the Damascus 

 Arabian, as early as 1769, and Prize, by Snap, and 

 Gallant, by Dorimant, later) ; and that he ran 

 Wotton (by Vauxhall Snap^ for the very first Derby 

 (1780), and bred Egham, Maria (sister to Wotton), 

 and Mira (by Woodpecker), &c. So that he con- 

 tributed to the good cause. The family seems to 

 have been connected by marriage with the Boscawens 

 (in fact, Sir Frederick's father, Sir John, married a 

 daughter of Viscount Falmouth), whence the familiar 

 name of Evelyn Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, late 

 pillar of the Turf, if the expression be admissible. 



Sir H. Fetherston, Bart., though his member- 

 ship of the Jockey Club may not be proved quite to 

 demonstration by actual facts, may be confidently 

 accepted on Pigott's evidence, backed by hereditary 



