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is duly entered. On May 18, 1874, the Earl of Macclesfield 

 and the late Lord Wenlock were put upon the Committee. On 

 June 24, 1874, the German Ambassador, Count Miinster, was 

 elected a member of the Club, with which he almost invariably 

 turned out, and to which he still belongs. In r875, tne annual 

 subscription was raised to 2!. 2$. In consequence of the very 

 great increase in the number of the carriages using Hyde 

 Park during the season, H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge, the 

 Ranger, wrote to the Chief Commissioner of Works to say 

 that the driving clubs when they met in the Park caused such 

 an obstruction to the traffic that it would be advisable for him 

 (the Commissioner, the Right Honourable Gerard Noel) to 

 suggest their meeting elsewhere. This was after the first meet 

 of the coaches that year. Not only the Park, but Piccadilly, 

 St. George's Place, Grosvenor Place, and Hamilton Place were 

 completely blocked for over an hour. Soon after June 30, it 

 was arranged between the Board of Works, the Chief Commis- 

 sioner of Police, and the Committee, that the -meets should 

 take place at 12.30 P.M. instead of at 5 P.M., and there is, in 

 consequence, but little inconvenience on the days of meeting. 

 As the members like, in July, to dine at the Crystal Palace on 

 a firework night, they met on July 19, 1877, in Belgrave 

 Square, and carried out their gathering with scarcely any crowd. 

 Since then H.R.H. the Ranger has permitted the Club to meet, 

 when it wishes to do so in the afternoon, on the Horse 

 Guards Parade in St. James's Park. On June 17, 1879, the 

 Earl of Macclesfield was elected Vice-President vice the Duke 

 of Sutherland, who took his name off the list of members of 

 the Club, and Viscount Castlereagh (now the Marquis of 

 Londonderry) was added to the Committee. On June 19, the 

 Earl of Fife was elected a member of the Committee vice 

 Lord Wenlock resigned. On Saturday, May 12, 1883, Rule 10 

 was added, viz : ' That, in future, the Club shall consist of fifty 

 members,' and it was resolved on June 12 that the subscription 

 be raised to 3/, 35-. per annum ; on May 13, 1885, the Duke of 



