CONTENTS XV 



I'AOE 



record for 1780-82— Loses appointment as Lord of Police 

 —Sends racehorses to France— Turf record for 1783— A 

 political bet made by his grace — A suggestive letter 

 written at his grace's dictation — Racing, 1784-5— Created 

 an English peer by the title of Baron Douglas— Walpole's 

 opinion of his grace's Richmond residence, , . . 170 



CHAPTER XXIV 



A noteworthy omission from his grace's list of peccadilloes — 

 A gluttonous wager— Racing in 1786— Goodison and 

 Chifney— Turf results for 1787-88— A faux pas—Ris 

 racing record, 1789-90— The Duke and Madame du Barry 

 —King George in. , Queensberry, and Madame du Barry 

 —His grace's opinion of Chifney— ' Old Q,' why so 

 called— Anecdote related of his grace by Lord Brougham, 179 



CHAPTEE XXV 



Decline of his grace's racing ' star '—Richard, seventh Earl 

 of Barrymore, and Queensberry compared as Turfites — 

 Racing, 1791-3 — Lord Grosvenor's losses on the Tuif ; an 

 equal sum said to have been won by the Duke — The 

 ' Father of the Turf ' : candidates for the honour— Recipe 

 for making a jockey— Queensberry's Turf record, 1794— 

 His grace killed by the press— Monody on* his supposed 

 death— Racing results, 1796— The Duke's appetite, . 188 



CHAPTER XXVI 



Amesbury becomes a convent— The Duke's racing record for 

 1798— His renewed delight in music— Collects books, 

 shells, etc.— Sir Nathaniel Wraxall's references— Racing, 

 1799-1800— Dines out— Dining then and now— His grace 

 ill — Engages a resident physician — Purchases the 

 Countess of Northampton's Richmond villa— Anecdote 

 of Wilberforce concerning his grace— Orgies at Rich- 

 mond—The Duke goes to law with the local authorities 

 as to part of his lawn— Result and effect, . . .196 



