266 DRIVING. 



had taken advantage of the circumstance to build her nest 

 therein. 



Some years later, a club on a smaller scale was established 

 in Monmouthshire, also under the presidency of the Duke of 

 Beaufort, their chief meet being to drive to Abergavenny 

 Steeplechases, when the little parade made a most imposing 

 show. Mr. Hamilton, of Millstones, formerly in the i3th 

 Hussars, was the originator, and the late Major Alec Rolls, 

 Mr. Crompton-Roberts, the late Lord Raglan, Mr. Reginald 

 Herbert, Mr. Crawshay Bailey, and one or two more were 

 members; but death, vacancies, and change of residence among 

 the little band, have broken it up and it has now ceased to 

 exist. A Coaching Club has also been started at Hyderabad. 



The Four-in-Hand Driving Club continued alone in its glory 

 from the day of its foundation until 1870, by which time the four 

 years of coaching revival had invested with greater interest the 

 meets of the F.H.D.C., and had given a decided fillip to the taste 

 for driving four horses. The Four-in-Hand Driving Club was 

 both exclusive and limited in its numbers, and could not, even 

 if its members had been so inclined, have received a quarter of 

 the candidates upon their books. At this juncture Mr. George 

 Goddard suggested to one or two gentlemen interested in coach- 

 ing the formation of a second driving association. The idea was 

 approved of, and the Coaching Club was established ; history 

 thus repeating itself in the formation of an overflow society. A 

 beginning was made with fifty members ; but the club became 

 so popular, and the driving mania, as it was derisively called 

 at the time, increased so greatly, that, in a very short time, it 

 had quite outgrown itself, and there were no fewer than 120 

 on the books. This was found to be too great a number, and 

 no fresh candidates, excepting under extraordinary circum- 

 stances, were put up for election, until retirement, and other 

 causes, had reduced the muster-roll to one hundred. As 

 already stated, the Coaching Club was founded in 1870, but 

 its opening meet did not take place until Tuesday, June 27, 

 1871, on which day 22 coaches (a larger number, it is believed, 



