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CHAPTER XII 



DEPARTED MEMBERS (continued) 



It remains to single out from the defunct members 

 of the club from 1835 to 1891 those who have been 

 notable for distinction gained upon the Turf. 



The (seventh) Duke of Bedford, who succeeded to 

 the title in 1839, and had previously raced as Mar- 

 quess of Tavistock, and who died in 1861, won the One 

 Thousand in 1855 with Habena (bred by him), by 

 Birdcatcher, and bred the famous Asteroid (by Stock- 

 well), chosen by Admiral Bous (the Duke's ' managing 

 man,' to whom the Duke bequeathed the choice of a 

 horse from his stud) and sold by him for 1,500 guineas 

 (it is stated) to Sir J. Hawley, who won with him 

 (but without a race) both the Jockey Club Challenge 

 Cup and the Whip in 1862. 



The (second) Marquess of Ailesbury is he who was 

 summoned to the House of Lords as Baron Bruce in 

 1839, and died in 1878, when he was succeeded by 

 his brother (died 1880), who was succeeded by his 

 grandson (with hereditary racing tendencies strength- 

 ened maternally, as his mother was a Craven), who 

 had the strange experience of being ' warned off ' (as 



