CAPTAIN THE HON. R. J. M. GREVILLE 



NUGENT 



(Mr. St. James) 



By the death on Thursday, February 28, 1878, of the Honour- 

 able Reginald James Macartney Greville Nugent, familiarly 

 known to his friends as "The Limb," and to the sporting 

 world generally as *' Mr. St. James " (the name adopted by 

 him for racing purposes), as the result of a fall from his horse 

 in a selling steeplechase at Sandown Park the previous day, 

 what must otherwise have been a brilliant career in the saddle 

 was prematurely brought to a close. The fourth son of the 

 first Baron Greville, the subject of our sketch was born on 

 November 27, 1848, and in process of time appointed to a 

 commission in the Coldstream Guards, in which regiment he 

 remained until his marriage in 187 1 to the Hon. L. M. Yarde- 

 Buller, a daughter of Lord Churston, when he retired from 

 the Service. 



In January of the previous year he had been returned as 

 M.P. for Co. Longford, but being unseated on petition in the 

 following April, he made no further attempt to enter Parlia- 

 ment, aspiring rather to honours in the saddle, in which he had 

 been a proficient from his very earliest childhood. Under these 

 circumstances it would have been odd indeed had such a fine 

 natural horseman as "Mr. St. James" failed to make a name 

 for himself sooner or later. And such proved to be the 

 case ; it being not too much to say that at the time of his 

 death he had ridden himself, so to speak, into the very fore- 

 most rank of the amateur horsemen of his day, there being 

 few amongst their number whose services were in greater 

 request than his. 



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