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his half-brother Charles (the present Baron, who is a 

 member of the Jockey Club to be noticed hereafter, 

 among the living members). The Suffields are not 

 recorded among the most successful runners of race- 

 horses ; and the fourth Baron had to ' decline the 

 Turf,' but deserves the most honourable mention as 

 one of those twenty- three or twenty- four prominent 

 members of the Club who protested (but in vain) 

 against the dispersal of the Koyal Stud at Hampton 

 Court at the very beginning of the present reign, 

 though it has since been re-established with so much 

 success — witness the price given for Memoir, and 

 the 5,500 guineas for her sister, La Fleche. The 

 fourth Lord Suffield, however, ran second with 

 Caravan for the Derby of 1837, won by Lord Berners 

 with the ' cripple ' Phosphorus. 



Sir David Baird (of Newbyth) is made out to have 

 been the nephew of the celebrated Sir David Baird 

 (the stormer of Seringapatam, created a baronet in 

 1802, died s.j;. in 1822), and to have been a noted 

 ' gentleman-jockey ' (like Lord Wilton, Sir F. John- 

 stone, Messrs. Delme-Badclyffe, Brand, and others of 

 the same date) rather than a distinguished owner 

 and runner of race-horses. 



Sir John Gerard cannot be discovered among the 

 winners of any ' classic ' race, but was undoubtedly 

 of the family of which was also a Sir W. Gerard <a 

 member probably of the Jockey Club, though proof is 

 not forthcoming) who won the Oaks of 1810 with 



