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The (fourth) Earl of Rosslyn, who died only the 

 other day (September 6, 1890, at fifty-seven years of 

 age) , a descendant of the celebrated or notorious Lord 

 Loughborough (Lord Keeper and Lord Chancellor 

 during a part of Pitt's long administration, 1783-1801), 

 was noted rather as a breeder than as a racer, having 

 bred, among other good horses, the queer-tempered 

 but highly meritorious Tristan (one of whose feats 

 was to lift with his teeth out of a chaise and shake 

 like a dog a reverend gentleman who was merely 

 ' looking on ' at Newmarket), but having injudiciously 

 sold him at an early age to the famous M. Lefevre, 

 of Chamant, near Chantilly, for whom he was an 

 Eldorado (though now repurchased at a long price 

 for his native land). The Earl was a ' clayver ' man 

 with a turn, and a very pretty turn, for verse-writing, 

 whether in Latin or English, and might have done 

 for the English Turf as much as was done for it by 

 an Oxford Professor of Poetry (Sir Francis Hastings 

 Doyle), if not quite so much as was done for Grecian 

 sport by one Pindar, whom a Rev. Professor of Greek 

 at Cambridge used to describe patronisingly (in his 

 sermons) as ' this benighted heathen.' 



The Earl (seventh) of Stamford and (third) of 

 Warrington was the very persistent patron of the 

 Turf, whose two marriages did not altogether meet 

 with the approval of society, and whose employment 

 of ' touts ' (which was revealed in the action of Bray 

 v. Jennings, for assault and battery, the plaintiff 



