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(who would have resented the 'Mister'), Mr. G. 

 Dawson, Mr. Ford (jockey and trainer), the 

 Duke of Richmond, Mr. Rudston Read (co- 

 executor with Mr. Baron Martin of John Scott's 

 will), Mr. Harry Hill (bookmaker), Mr. Joseph 

 Saxon (collier and bookmaker), Mr. W. Graham 

 (of 'Nicholson's gin'), Mr. Dunbar, M. Lefevre 

 (*Mr. Lombard,' a French financier, of Chamant, 

 Chantilly), and Mr. ' Launde ' (the Rev. Mr. 

 King, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 

 who was ' pulled over the coals ' by the Bishop 

 of Lincoln). Also M. Lupin (the doyen of the 

 French Jockey Club), Mr. Fulteney, Mr. (' Chit- 

 tabob ') Perkins, Lord Stamford (the ' all-round ' 

 sportsman). Lord Rosebery (well known to fame 

 in divers ways, especially as a Minister of 

 Foreign Affairs), Lord Cadogan, K.G. (a Cabinet 

 Minister, and greatly opposed to betting), the 

 Duke of Hamilton (one of the most enterprising 

 and pertinacious patrons ever known on the 

 turf), the Duke of Beaufort (a prince of owners 

 and runners), Lord Calthorpe (a millionaire 

 and great promoter of the cause, not at all op- 

 posed to betting), Lord Randolph Churchill (a 

 Cabinet Minister, and confederate on the turf 



