112 'OLD q' 



was perhaps wise in enduring the insult without 

 recourse to gunpowder, steel, or law. 



My statement that Lord March would have been 

 a very much married man, had every report of his 

 forthcoming nuptials been true, is substantiated by 

 the following, which was current towards the close of 

 the year 1764. The Honourable Thomas Townshend, 

 a common friend of March's and Selwyn's, alludes to 

 this in a communication to Selwj^n, dated the 11th of 

 November : 



'. . . You have omitted informing me of a marriage 

 which is here said to be agreed on between Lord March 

 to Lady Anne Conway,^ and we give that reason for his 

 [March's] being absent at Newmarket last meeting, though 

 we shall not be surprised if the report is contradicted.' 



This was only a baseless rumour, as others had 

 been, for it seems pretty certain that his lordship 

 meant to remain a bachelor, however much the world 

 married him. 



Other reasons must then have accounted for Lord 

 March's partial neglect of his hobby, the Turf. This 

 year he only incurred ten engagements,^ of which he 

 won three, all at Ascot ; where the preceding year he 

 had also done well. 



^ Daughter of the first Marquis of Hertford. 

 - Racing Analysis, under date. 



