274 THE JOCKEY CLUB 1835- 



death (at eighty years of age) on February 13, 1879, 

 at his beautiful place Marble Hill (once the seat of 

 Mrs. Howard, George II.'s Countess of Suffolk), 

 Twickenham, the great horse Peter (so called from 

 the General's friend, the eccentric Lord Glasgow, 

 whose nick-name it was), by Hermit, was disqualified 

 for (winning) the Derby of that year. 



Admiral Eous, again, may be classed among the 

 historical group ; for his feat in bringing home the 

 sinking Pique is a historical feat of seamanship, 

 though perhaps his ' mates ' (at a time when there was 

 no such term or rank as ' sub -lieutenant '), including 

 the late Rear- Admiral Robert Dawes Aldrich, deserved 

 as much credit as Admiral Rous himself. 



Among the dead and gone ' shocking examples ' of 

 the Jockey Club comprised in this batch of members 

 were those that follow. 



There was the Duke of Newcastle (the sixth), who 

 at one time owned the good horse Julius (that managed 

 to beat Hermit in a match) and whose very hippie name 

 disappears from the list of members in 1869 (after a 

 short and stormy career, both as Earl of Lincoln and 

 as Duke of Newcastle), the year after he had won the 

 Goodwood Cup with Speculum. He is understood to 

 have used the race-horse principally as an instrument 

 of gambling, and to have made terrible havoc of things 

 in general. 



The (fourth and last) Marquess of Hastings is, of 

 course, he who was the hero of a very romantic 



