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and open hand should secure him long remembrance ; 

 he was not a racing man, but still he was always 

 ready to place his villa called Bagatelle, near Long- 

 champs, at the service of English gentlemen who ran 

 candidates for the Grand Prix de Paris. 



Colonel, afterwards General, Anson (the Hon.), 

 may certainly be considered historical, if only as a 

 descendant of the famous ' circumnavigator ' Commo- 

 dore (and afterwards Lord) Anson, the figure-head of 

 whose ship (the Centurion, in which he went round 

 the world) was set up at Goodwood House on a 

 pedestal with an inscription in doggerel. But General 

 Anson himself was Commander-in-Chief in India, 

 where he died in 1857, and whence his body was 

 removed to England and buried in Kensal Green 

 Cemetery in 1860. The gallant General was a great 

 racer ; he won the Derby in 1842 with Attila, and the 

 Oaks in 1844 with The Princess (ridden by his favourite 

 jockey, the celebrated Frank Butler). 



Colonel and General the Bight Hon. Jonathan 

 Peel is another of the historical members, for he was 

 a Cabinet Minister and Secretary for War, and a 

 member of Parliament for forty-two years, from 18^6 

 to 1868. He gave evidence in the trial (1827) which 

 established the right of the Jockey Club to ' warn off ' 

 offenders from Newmarket Heath. He won the Two 

 Thousand with Archibald in 1832, and the sensational 

 Derby of 1844 (when his friend, Lord George Bentinck, 

 exploded a villainous plot) with Orlando ; and by his 



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