MEN OF MY TIME. 



seat at Stockton, when he must have been about 

 ninety. 



Lord Palmerston kept horses with my father about 

 the year 1817, and had several good ones. Amongst 

 his early possessions may be mentioned Enchantress, 

 Banvittes, Biondetta, Luzborough, Black and All 

 Black, Foxbury, and Grey Leg ; and, later, Too thill, 

 Iliona, Zeila, Romsey, Dactyl, and Buckthorn. But 

 I think that, in racing circles, he will be better known 

 as the owner of Iliona than by any other. The name 

 of Priam's daughter, on her appearance in public, 

 caused a sensation among the most learned orthoepists. 

 A discussion took place as to the proper pronuncia- 

 tion between the then Lord Maidstone and Mr. 

 Gregory, who, now Sir William, and just returned 

 home from many years' foreign service in good health, 

 was in those days fresh from Alma Mater. The 

 dispute ended, as I think most disputes of a like kind 

 do, by each advocate thinking he was in the right. 

 But a greater sensation was created when she won 

 for Lord Palmerston his first Cesarewitch. In early 

 life his lordship was always credited with being poor ; 

 and, until he married, anything like a substantial 

 cheque was acceptable to him. And it may be 

 imagined readily, that on this event coming off, when 

 my father, on his return from Newmarket, handed 

 him one which included not only the Cesarewitch 

 stakes, but a fair sum in bets, after deducting his 

 little account which had been for some years out- 

 standing, his lordship was not a little pleased. 



