Lord Willoughby de Broke 



Of those finishing behind No Name was "Mr. Buttevant's" 

 Tipperary Boy — "Mr. Buttevant" being the nom-de-course 

 chosen by Mr. Smith-Barry, now Lord Barrymore. It will 

 be remembered that the subject of our memoir married Miss 

 Smith-Barry, the eldest of Mr. Smith-Barry's two sisters. It 

 was at this same meeting at Aylesbury that the memorable 

 match took place between the undergraduates of Oxford and 

 Cambridge — four horses a side, to carry 12 stone each, for 

 150 sovs. "Mr. Ashby" rode Mr. Stanhope's brown mare, 

 Kate, and how he collided with The Good Lady, ridden by 

 Mr. Roily, now Lord Minto, Viceroy of India, at the first 

 fence, is matter of history. 



On the same day, "Mr. Ashby" rode "Mr. Merton's" 

 chestnut mare, Briseis, carrying 10 st. 10 lbs., and finished 

 third, " Mr. Merton " being in reality Mr. W. H. P. Jenkins, 

 now a prominent member of the National Hunt Committee. 



The next account that we have of Lord Willoughby de 

 Broke appearing over a country is at the Stratford-upon-Avon 

 Steeplechases in 1873, when he won the Warwickshire Hunt 

 Cup on his mare Lady Betty, by Streamer, dam by Wind- 

 hound, those who finished behind him being Mr. H. Spencer 

 Lucy, of Charlcote Park, on Brunette, sometime Master of the 

 Warwickshire Hounds ; the Hon. Gilbert Leigh, eldest son of 

 the second Lord Leigh, on Colleen Bawn ; Sir C. Mordaunt, 

 of Walton Hall, on Advance; Lord Yarmouth, now Marquis 

 of Hertford, High Sheriff and Lord-Lieutenant of Warwick- 

 shire, on Murphy ; and Major Paulett's Salt Fish, ridden by 

 Mr. Osborne. Of these the Marquis of Hertford is now the 

 only survivor. 



On the same occasion Lord Willoughby de Broke rode his 

 own horse, Kilsby, in another steeplechase, but without 

 success. 



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