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life he thoroughly understood and never regretted, as he made clear to every one 

 from the witness-box in the famous card-playing libel case, when Sir John Campbell 

 managed really to rouse him. It was this bitter barrister's " Lives of the Lord 

 Chancellors " which, in Lord Brougham's opinion, added another terror to death ; 

 and he eventually offered Mr. Payne an apology, which was cheerfully accepted. 

 Of " G. P.'s" wonderful games at dcartd, in Limmer's Hotel, or in a post-chaise 

 lost in the New Forest, I have no space here to speak. The very pickpockets 

 stole his watch with consideration, and returned it in the certainty of getting a 



ten-pound note each time. He was a 

 master of the Pytchley, and received 

 a magnificent testimonial from the 

 Northamptonshire farmers when he 

 resigned. He did well over Tedding- 

 tons Derby, and was equally fortunate 

 when Scfton won. But the change 

 of luck heralded the end. Soon after 

 Kincsenis victory at Goodwood he 

 died, in August, 1878, having refused 

 to shield himself with an umbrella 

 from the burning sun at Lewes. 



Another famous huntsman in the 

 Midlands was that George Child 

 Villiers whose name will ever be 

 associated with the famous Billesdon 

 Coplow Run of 1800. As Earl of 

 Jersey he became even more famous 

 when he took to racing. With the 

 daughter of Lord Westmoreland he married the fortune she inherited from old 

 Mr. Child, the famous banker in Fleet Street, whose house has been thus indirectly- 

 connected with the History of the Turf, as I have shown, ever since the clays 

 of Bernard Howard and Nell Gwynne. When the husband of this wealthy, 

 accomplished, and influential lady began breeding thoroughbreds at Miclclleton 

 Stoney, there were those who remembered that in a family-tree which was rich 

 in famous and beautiful women there appeared also the name of George, Duke 

 of Buckingham, who owned the Helmslcy Turk ; and these foresaw the possibilities 



General Peel. 



