26 NEWMARKET EARLY IN THE CENTURY. 



time lessee and manager. In addition to " The 

 Rooms," my grandfather also built what is now 

 called the " Rutland Arms Hotel," on the site 

 occupied by which another inn (of far inferior size 

 and pretensions, and called " The Ram ") formerly 

 stood. I have often been told by my old friend 

 Mr J. F. Clark, the ex-racing judge, that viewed 

 as an edifice, the Rutland Arms is well calculated 

 to confer credit upon its builder, as the brick- 

 work is a very excellent specimen of neatness and 

 stability. Mr J. F. Clark's authority on every- 

 thing connected with Newmarket has long been 

 acknowledged to be quite unexceptionable ; and 

 the fact that, in addition to being a racing judge, 

 he has for many years followed the profession of 

 an architect, lends additional weight to his opinion 

 on such a subject. Previous to the erection of 

 the Rutland Arms, which was commenced a few 

 months after the battle of Waterloo, the Ram 

 Inn, its predecessor, took its name from an inci- 

 dent connected with the strange, eventful history 

 of the eccentric Earl of Orford, about whom so 

 many queer tales were told. It is well known that 

 on one occasion Lord Orford drove his favourite 

 team, consisting of four stags, from Houghton 

 Hal], his country seat in Norfolk (after which, by 

 the way, the Houghton meeting is called), into 

 Newmarket, a distance of about twenty-nine miles. 

 When he was approaching his destination, the 

 Essex Hounds chanced to cross the road along 



