204, 'OLD q' 



The first order could only affect the residuary 

 legatee, Lord Yarmouth, who, it is urged, took indem- 

 nities from the various legatees more as matter of 

 form than anything else, as the accumulations of 

 interest on a sum close upon a million sterling, 

 for the six years it had lain in Chancery, would 

 not only satisfy the interest on the legacies, pay the 

 costs, but go very far towards indemnifying those 

 tenants who still held under the leases wrongly 

 granted by the Duke. 



With this I bring my task to a close. Though 

 not so pure as could be desired, my subject is the 

 career of one of the most curious men of the last 

 and the early part of this century, one whose memory 

 will always be green to every supporter of the Turf, 

 but of whom no proper nor trustworthy record has as 

 yet appeared. From further reference to the Duke of 

 Queensberry's character I forbear, merely observing 

 that, though Lord Lytton says, ' Man is born to be 

 deceived,' his grace never was the dupe of that 

 portion of the female sex with which his name was 

 chiefly associated. 



FINIS 



