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by so astute a person as Colonel O" Kelly, of whom I shall have more to say in 

 later pages. No particular virtue is recorded of this nobleman, but his name runs 

 through Walpole's letters on account of his connection with the famous Miss 

 Chudleigh, at whose expense Horace was fondofmakingjokes jokes which perhaps 

 it is best to leave unrepeated. The Duke afterwards married her, and she (who, it 

 appeared, had formerly married Lord Bristol) was tried for bigamy. His first cousin 

 was Thomas Brand, who ran Gloivworm (by Eclipse] for a Jockey Club Plate in 1776, 

 and who, by his marriage with the Hon. 

 Gertrude Roper, transmitted the blood 

 of the famous John Hampden of the 

 seventeenth century to the distin- 

 guished Speaker of the House of 

 Commons in the nineteenth. Another 

 member of his family was a famous 

 gentleman-jockey who raced with Lord 

 Hilton, Delme Radcliffe, and other 

 bloods of the Bibury Meetings ; and his 

 wife also raced in her own name, as, for 

 instance, when her bay mare Baccelli 

 won a match for a hundred guineas at 

 the first October Meeting of 1 7 76 against 

 Lady Bam pfylde's Fortuiic-hu/ifer. Gloiv- 

 worm was bought by the Marquis de 

 Conflans, and, after winning races at 

 Fontainebleau, became the sire of 

 several animals which upheld the 

 honour of the French Turf in England. 



The important resolution signed by members in 1758 also shows the names of 

 Lord Eglintonand Lord Portmore, whose elder brother, Lord Milsington, was a well- 

 known racing man, as we have seen already. Lord Portmore won the Great 

 Subscription of 1751 with Skim by the Bolton Starling, and he bred Mr. Grisewood's 

 Partner (sire of Gimcrack's dam), and Little Highlander by Victorious. Lord Eglinton 

 was the tenth Earl, and owned Cripple sire of Gimcrack, and Omar by the Godolphin 

 Arabian. He is mentioned in those verses on the Jockey Club which Boswell 

 (Johnson's Boswell) wrote on his visit to Newmarket in 1762. 



Evelyn Pierrepoint, Duke 

 of Kingston. 



