Mr. George Alexander Baird 



Stanley, and Farquhar sending him their horses to work upon, 

 his success, which was never really in doubt, soon became an 

 accomplished fact. Since 1893 — in which year he started on his 

 new vocation — besides innumerable other races of more or less 

 importance, two Oaks and no fewer than ten Liverpool Cups 

 have fallen to horses emanating from Stanley House, and it is 

 not too much to say that at the present time amongst members 

 of his adopted profession it would be difficult to find the 

 superior of the subject of this sketch. 



Mr. GEORGE ALEXANDER BAIRD 



("Mr. Abington ") 



If ever there was a man to whom his vast wealth may be 

 said to have proved a curse, rather than a blessing, surely it 

 was the eccentric gentleman named above. 



Sole inheritor of the enormous fortune of both father and 

 uncle, and with all the attributes of a sportsman, one cannot 

 help thinking what a different career might have been his 

 had he fallen into good hands at the outset, instead of amongst 

 thieves, as was unfortunately the case. As it was, when good 

 counsel and advice did come his way, as is too often the case, 

 it arrived too late ; the moral persuasion which might have 

 found favour with the youth, having quite the opposite effect 

 on the man. 



A nearly similar case to his was that of the equally 

 notorious " Mad " Windham, whose escapades were the ** talk 

 of the town " in the early sixties. With a view to bringing 



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