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KINGSCLERE 



Frederick James Archer was born at St. George's 

 Cottage, St. George's Place, Cheltenham, on January n, 

 1857. Archer's father was a well-known cross-country 

 jockey. He kept the King's Arms at Prestwich, about 

 three miles from Cheltenham, and it was there the boy 

 received his first lessons in riding on a famous galloway 

 named Chord, which his father had won in a raffle. On 

 January 10, 1867, Archer was apprenticed to Mr. Matthew 

 Dawson, at Newmarket, for a term of five years, and on 

 September 28, 1870, he sported silk in public for the first 



