The Hon. George Lambton 



the D.S.O., and was twice mentioned in despatches by Lord 

 Roberts, and again by Lord Kitchener in 190 1. 



In 1887 Colonel Lawson married Sybil, daughter of Lieut.- 

 General Sir F. Marshall, K.C.M.G., of Broadwater, Surrey, 

 who, like her husband, devoted to what Mr. Jorrocks was wont 

 to call the "plissures of the Chase," has long since taken front 

 rank amongst the brilliant galaxy of ladies who are never seen 

 to more advantage than when taking their own part in a run 

 with hounds over high Leicestershire. 



THE HON. GEORGE LAMBTON 



The Lambtons have been a sporting family from time 

 immemorial, and never have its traditions been better kept up 

 than at the period of which we write, by the Earl of Durham 

 and his brothers, the Honourable George Lambton, Rear- 

 Admiral Lambton, and the Honourable C. Lambton. 



The fifth son of the second Earl of Durham, the subject of 

 our sketch was born in i860, and received his education at 

 Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge, afterwards joining the 

 3rd Battalion of the Derbyshire Regiment, He won his first 

 race at Nottingham, on a mare named Pompeia, beating Mr. 

 Arthur Coventry on the favourite by a neck. Shortly after he 

 won another race (his third) at Windsor on the same mare, 

 curiously enough again beating Mr. Coventry — this time by 

 a short head. 



In 1885, the race won by the erratic Roquefort, we find 

 him riding for the first time in the Grand National, his mount 



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