262 DRIVING. 



Trafalgar at Greenwich. The second turn-out was on Whitsun 

 Monday, May 12 a fearfully wet day not a soul in the Park 

 but the three or four coaches that went. No record in the 

 book who put in an appearance, but the President and Captain 

 H. S. Baillie both took their coaches down, and there were 

 two or three others in addition ; the dinner took place at the 

 Castle Hotel, Richmond. The only note is ' The badness of 

 the dinner surpassed by the execrable wine.' We can say the 

 weather was a match for either in point of badness. On May 24 

 they turned out again : the President, Vice-President, the late 

 Lord Willoughby de Broke, Messrs. W. G. Craven, W. P. 

 Thornhill (the late), W. Morritt (the late) ; and on June 5 

 eleven coaches, headed by the Vice-President, assembled 

 again. On June 28 eleven coaches, the President, Vice-Presi- 

 dent, all the Committee except Lord Vane, and seven others 

 met ; and there was a last meeting of seven coaches on July 9, 

 1856. It was a very bad wet summer. 



On May 13, 1859, the thanks of the Committee and Club 

 were voted to the two Honorary Secretaries, and they were 

 elected Honorary Members of the Club. In 1861, on July 5, 

 Lord Sefton and Mr. W. P. Thornhill were added to the 

 Committee. In 1867 Colonel Leslie, in 1870 Lord Londes- 

 borough, in 1872 Lord Aveland were also placed on the Com- 

 mittee. In 1873 Mr. \V. Morritt, who had acted as Secretary 

 since 1859, died, and Lord Aveland kindly undertook his 

 duties. The Club had increased to fifty-four members, in- 

 cluding the officers driving the coaches of the three regiments 

 of Household Cavalry. It was now found necessary to have 

 a subscription of i/. per annum to meet the expenses of police, 

 &c., in the Park, and Lord Aveland appointed Mr. Love- 

 grove, who is in the Lord Great Chamberlain's office in the 

 House of Lords, to be Secretary, since which time the irregu- 

 larities in the keeping of the records have ceased, and the name 

 of every member who turns out at the meets, or is present 

 with his coach in the enclosures at Ascot, Lord's, or elsewhere, 



