Captain " Jack " Skip worth 



the Portuguese War of Succession in 1832, where he greatly 

 distinguished himself on several occasions when in action. 

 He took a few couples of foxhounds out with him, presented 

 to him by Lord Yarborough, and it is said that on one occasion 

 he ran a fox right into the enemies' lines. 



On his return to England, like his father before him — who, 

 by the way, was a tenant of Mr. Richardson, of Limber Magna, 

 grandfather of Mr. J. Maunsell Richardson, of our own time — 

 Captain Skipworth determined to go in for farming, and with 

 this view took a farm under Lord Yarborough in the Brocklesby 

 country, where he lived for the rest of his life. 



In addition to being a fine horseman, there was no keener 

 or better sportsman than Jack Skipworth, and he hunted 

 regularly with the Brocklesby until he was eighty-three years 

 of age. For many years, too, he judged hunters at all the 

 big shows. 



Towards the latter end of his life, his life-long friend, 

 Mr. J. M. Richardson, used frequently to mount the old 

 gentleman with hounds, and he tells with great glee how on 

 one of these occasions he put him on Reugny to ride quietly 

 about upon, telling him when he got into the saddle that he 

 was on the back of a future Grand National winner — a 

 prophecy which, as it turned out, proved correct to the 

 letter. 



Mr. Fitz Oldacre and the late Baron Meyer de Rothschild 

 were two staunch friends of his, and the latter made him a 

 present of that famous mare, Starlight, who bred him, in 

 addition to other winners, Planet and Mercury, second and 

 third for the Leger in their respective years. 



Jealousy, Lictor, and Lucifer, Mount Valerian, and the 

 Truth gelding, were also foaled in his paddocks. 



Mr. George E. Collins (Nimrod Junior) in his interesting 



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