Gentlemen Riders 



large proportion of the general public, when the heavily backed 

 Saccharometer failed to realize expectations in the Derby 

 of 1862. 



VISCOUNT TREDEGAR 



Familiar as the name of the popular nobleman who forms the 

 subject of this chapter must necessarily be, not only in the 

 Principality, but throughout the length and breadth of the land 

 as one of the staunchest friends of agriculture and all that 

 pertains to it the cause has ever possessed, it is probably news 

 to the present generation, who may have only heard of him as 

 a sportsman in connection with the Tredegar Hunt, of which 

 he was master for so many years, that in his younger days 

 there were few more accomplished horsemen, both over a 

 country and on the flat, than the subject of our memoir, and 

 certainly none more popular; the roar of delight which went 

 up all along the line when the purple and orange sleeves were 

 seen in the van at Cardiff or Abergavenny, more especially 

 when sported by their owner, being something to remember. 



Godfrey Charles Morgan, first Viscount Tredegar, son of 

 the first Baron Tredegar, and his wife Rosamund, only 

 daughter of General Godfrey Basil Mundy, was born on the 

 28th April, 1830, at Ruperra Castle, in Glamorganshire, and 

 on leaving Eton, joined the 17th Lancers, with which gallant 

 regiment he served in the Crimean War, being lucky enough 

 not only to participate in the historic charge of the Light 

 Brigade at Balaclava, but to emerge scatheless from the melie. 

 It was soon after joining his regiment, in 1853, that Cornet 

 Godfrey Morgan, as he then was, made his d^btit in the 



72 



