Gentlemen Riders 



son of Kingsley, who during his career had won over thirty 

 events, died, as the result of a fall in the Open Steeplechase at 

 Whitehaven, to the great grief of his owner. 



Punjaub and Doneraile also carried his colours successfully 

 on many occasions, the last named being undoubtedly the best 

 horse he ever owned. 



In 1 87 1 Captain Middleton married Miss Baird of Rose- 

 mount, a sister of Colonel E. W. and Mr. Douglas Baird, both 

 of them members of the Jockey Club, than whose colours none 

 are more popular at headquarters, or, indeed, anywhere. 



Amongst his favourite amusements must certainly be 

 included cricket, of which game he was no mean exponent. 



Nor must we forget his liking — amounting to almost a 

 passion indeed — for practical jokes and bear-fighting generally, 

 concerning which many an amusing story is related by friends 

 who participated in them. 



So great was his reputation, indeed, as a bear-fighter, 

 that old Lord Strathnairn once, when on a visit to Lord 

 Fitzwilliam, at Wentworth, thinking it not improbable that 

 "Bay" might "draw" him during the night, took the pre- 

 caution, before going to bed, to pull a chest of drawers in 

 front of his door. He very often made one of the eleven, 

 which, captained by Sir Chandos Leigh, would go over to 

 Ireland in the autumn to play cricket for I Zingari, and on 

 one of these occasions, when they were staying in Dublin 

 for the match against the Vice-regal Lodge, an amusing 

 incident happened. The Duke of Abercorn was at that time 

 Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and after dinner one night at the 

 Castle, Sir Chandos, on bended knee and with much pomp 

 and ceremony, was in the act of presenting the freedom of 

 I Zingari to the Duchess in a neat speech, when the irrepressible 

 " Bay " got behind him and tied his handkerchief to the button 



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