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liams (whose racing fame is connected with that of 

 their kinsman, the 'Bay Malton' Marquess of Eocking- 

 ham) ; in Colonel the Hon. H. Forester (whose family 

 appears to have matrimonial ' crosses ' with the racing 

 families of Manners, and Maltzahn, and Lamb [Lords 

 Melbourne, of Brocket Hall]) ; in Lord Gerard (whose 

 family is supposed to have gone horse-racing some 

 time B.C., and certainly, as long ago as 1623, a Lord 

 Gerard is credited with a notable race-horse called 

 Captain) ; in Sir Eeginald Graham (through the 

 famous Sir Bellingham Graham, to go back no farther) ; 

 in the Duke of Hamilton (whose predecessors, the 

 tenth and eleventh dukes, appear to have eschewed 

 the Turf and the Jockey Club) through the great 

 northern horse-racer, Lord Archibald, ninth duke, 

 and back to the first duke, who was Master of the 

 Horse to Charles I. ; in the Marquess of Hartington 

 (who recalls memories of Flying Childers, the property 

 of a Duke of Devonshire) ; in Lord Hastings (whose 

 ancestor, Sir Jacob Astley, appears once in the extra- 

 ordinary character — for an Astley — of a prohibitor of 

 a horse-race at Catterick in 1639, for the name is 

 connected rather with the promotion of such sport 

 from the earliest times) ; in Mr. J. H. Houldsworth 

 (with memories of Filho da Puta in 1816) ; in Earl 

 Howe (whose title, and whose name of Curzon both 

 recall the earliest days of the Club) ; in the Earl 

 of Ilchester (whose compound name of Fox- Strange- 

 ways tells in its first part a tale of the Et. Hon. 



