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Maiylebone Cricket Matches, 1830-35. A great 

 player at hazard. Dissipated all his property. 

 Drove the ' Age ' coach from Brighton to London 

 and hack for some years from 3830. Died at 5, 

 Hyde Park Terrace,* January 25th, 1863." 



It is possible to largely supplement this 

 skeleton biography from the Sporting Magazine 

 and other sources. " The Cottons of Madingley 

 and Land wade," said that classic authority, " are 

 no ' soft goods ' of recent manufacture, but have 

 held high rank among the gentry of Cambridge- 

 shire since the reign of Edward I. Sir John 

 Cotton, the first baronet of the family, was ad- 

 vanced to that honour in IGll, by Charles I., 

 to Avhose cause he was firmly attached. Sir 

 St. Vincent used to ride in the first flight with 

 the crack men of Leicestershire, mounted on his 

 favourite mare, ' Lark.' The honourable baronet 

 has, however, left both the Army and the Chase 

 to devote himself exclusively to the public service 

 on the ' Road,' where he performs the duties of a 

 coachman very much to his own j^leasure, and the 

 great satisfaction of all His Majesty's lieges who 

 travel by the Brighton ' Age ' ; and we are of 

 opinion that an English baronet is much better 

 emj)loyed in driving a coach than in endeavouring 

 — like a certain mole-eyed wiseacre of the West, 

 who also displays the lied Hand on his scutcheon 

 — to saw off the branch that he is sitting on. 



" We believe that the late Mr. H. Stevenson, 

 who drove the ' Age ' a few years ago, was one 

 of the first gentleman-whij^s who took a hoh and 



