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The Marquis of Rockin^hanf s "Bay 

 Malton" (1760) by " Sampson," 

 his dam by " Cade." 



was 



It was very possibly 



after this nobleman that 



Lord Barrymore's Rock- 

 ing ham was named who 



won the Jockey Club 



Plate of 1788, the same 



year in which its spirited 



young owner (then only 



nineteen) had entered 



Sir John Lade's Feeno-w, 



by Tandem, for the 



Derby. He deserves 



to be recorded as a 



patron of the Turf, for 



his devotion was, at 



all events, enthusiastic, if not always respectably displayed. Lord Barrymore 

 known as " Hellgate," his second brother, who succeeded him, being 



lame, as " Cripplegate," and another 

 brother, a clergyman, as " Newgate." 

 This edifying family there was a 

 sister, by the way, Lady Melford, 

 whom the Prince called " Billings- 

 gate," in compliment to her vocabulary 

 were all more or less on the Turf, 

 but Hellgate was the best sportsman 

 and the best fellow. He owned 

 numerous thoroughbreds which he 

 often rode himself, but his chief 

 devotion was apparently to the stage. 

 He had a theatre of his own at War- 

 grave, and got up mixed companies 

 of amateurs and professionals to act, 

 not unnaturally taking the chief parts 

 himself. After Delpini, a male opera 

 General Grosvenor. dancer who often assisted at these 



