Gentlemen Riders 



was unable to indulge his steeplechase-riding propensity to the 

 extent he would doubtless have liked, and except one solitary 

 ride at Lingfield, he confined his attention entirely to Hawthorn 

 Hill, at which popular meeting he constantly sported silk with 

 more than his share of success. 



In 1892, on the General (12 st. 7 lbs.), a very big 16,3, 

 15 St. hunter, by Ascetic, bought from Captain Beatty, that 

 could gallop above a bit, he won the Scots Guards' Regimental 

 Challenge Cup (given by Captain Frank Barton), and repeated 

 the programme the following year, carrying a stone more ; 

 whilst on Result, a horse already mentioned, he won the Scots 

 Guards' Regimental Steeplechase on three successive occasions, 

 viz. 1895 (12 St. 7 lbs.), 1896 (13 St. 7 lbs.), and 1897 (14 st.) ; 

 and on the same horse, the Household Brigade Welter Steeple- 

 chase in 1897, three miles, ten runners, 13 st. each, his rider 

 having to declare 6 lbs. overweight. 



On leaving the Army in 1904, Colonel Lawson won the 

 Quorn Heavy Weight Point-to- Point, under Gartree Hill, on 

 Santos Dumont, by Francescan — Ouida, ten runners, 14 st. 

 each ; Mr. Cecil Grenfell being second on Elvery, formerly 

 the property of Mr. H. T. Barclay, and which had just 

 previously won the Stock Exchange Point-to-Point. 



The Colonel describes Result as the best weight-carrier he 

 ever possessed, and not without reason, seeing that, in spite of 

 exceptionally heavy going, he made nearly all the running in 

 most of his races, and won easily at the finish. 



The second son of the first Lord Burnham, of Hall Barn, 

 Beaconsfield, Bucks, the subject of our memoir was born in 

 1864, and after leaving Eton, joined the Scots Guards, from 

 which gallant regiment, after serving with distinction, he joined 

 the loth I.Y. under Lord Chesham in the Boer War. He 

 subsequently commanded that corps for a year on service, gained 



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