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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH TURF. 



origins from which arose the Duke of Westminster and the Grosvenor property in 

 London as we know them both to-day. 



In 1652 there died, in prison for debt, a freeman of London named John Davies. 

 His wife, Mary Peacock, was niece to Hugh Audley, a rich lawyer of the Inner 

 Temple. His eldest son, Thomas, was at St. Paul's School with our friend Pepys, 

 and eventually became Lord Mayor in 1676. The second son died early. The 



By permission of Ha Grace the Duke of Westminster. The First Earl Grosvenor. 



From Ike original drawing by Doatnman. 



third son, Alexander Davies, married, by his uncle's help and advice, Mary 

 Dukeson, daughter of the Rector of St. Clement Danes, and, on this uncle's 

 death, found himself possessed of certain lands close to the Tyburn in one 

 direction and to the Thames in the other. But in three years he was himself 

 dead of the plague, and his tombstone was preserved (when others were obliter- 

 ated) close to the northern entrance of the churchyard of St. Margaret's, West- 



