SOME EARLY VICTORIAN OWNERS. 



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diametrically opposite views. Lord George, " iracundus, inexorabilis, acer," never 

 forgave and never forgot. Ten years after their first quarrel, Mr. Greville's 

 Alarm was at the post for the Derby in a field of thirty-one. Lord George had 

 his eye upon them, through a large telescope, and it seems to have been with some 

 satisfaction that he presently proclaimed in loud but level tones : " There is a 

 tremendous row at the post. Mr. Hill's Libel has just savaged another horse. 

 I think it is Mr. Greville's Alarm. ... It is Mr. Greville's Alarm. Now Mr. St. 

 Paul's Mentor is joining in the fray. Between them they have forced Alarm over 

 the ropes. Nat Flatman is lying on the ground. It looks as though he had broken 

 one arm, which he is nursing with the other hand. He seems unable to rise." 



No wonder that Gre- 

 ville wrote in September, 

 1848, when the news of 

 Lord George's death 

 reached him : "He had 

 the credit of virtues which 

 he did not possess, or 

 which were so mixed with 

 vices that if all had been 

 known he would have 

 been most severely re- 

 proached in reference to 

 the matters in which he 

 has been the most loudly CoL A " so "' s " AttiUt * ^^ *? " Colwick " 



and generally bepraised." This must be taken with all the reservation due to 

 the " strong feelings of alienation and dislike " which the writer confesses to 

 have existed between Lord George and himself. There is no doubt that the 

 domineering attitude Lord George naturally and unaffectedly exhibited towards 

 nearly every one with whom he came in contact accentuated and exacerbated 

 the feelings of the Clerk of the Council. Only when he met men whose 

 eccentricity of character and larger wealth enabled them to stand up to him, did 

 Lord George in the least abate this haughty spirit. The tale of his coming 

 into Crockforcl's on the eve of the Derby of 1843, and asking for "money" 

 about Gaper, has probably been exaggerated by the gambling atmosphere of that 

 notorious place ; for it is said that Lord Glasgow promptly replied, " I'll lay you 



