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Thousand Guineas Stakes with Corsair in 1839. EHs's 

 journey to Doncaster was the subject of contemporary 

 comment, as he was conveyed thither in a van. Lord 

 Lichfield was Master of the Atherstone Hounds from 1822 

 to 1829, and Master of the Buckhounds from 1830 to 1834. 

 His lordship, who was a hard rider to hounds, took a keen 

 interest in hunting, but the latter years of his existence 

 were so painfully visited by frequent and severe attacks 

 of gout, that he had resigned all active enjoyment of field 

 sports long before his death, which occurred on March i8th, 

 1854. His lordship married, in 18 19, Louisa Catherine, 

 youngest daughter of Nathaniel Phillips, Esq., of Slebech 

 Hall, Pembrokeshire. 



1834 -1 835. — George, 6th Earl of Chesterfield was 

 born on May 23rd, 1805, and succeeded to his father's title 

 on August 29th, 1815. He was educated at Eton and 

 Christchurch, Oxford, and displayed, at an early age, that 

 affection for the various phases of sport, the prudent pursuit 

 of which gained hini so eminent a reputation among the 

 sporting noblemen of the past generation. During his all 

 too brief tenure of the Mastership the management of 

 the Hunt was perfect, usefulness and good taste being 

 equally considered. The death of his lordship, which 

 occurred in 1866, evoked, among sportsmen and the racing 

 public, a general expression of sincere regret, which testified 

 both to his amiable character and to the authority of his 

 position in the world of sport. 



1 83 5- 1 839. — The name of the Earl of Erroll is 

 indissolubly connected with Ascot, for it was during his 

 Mastership of the Royal Buckhounds that the present 

 Grand Stand was inaugurated. Born on P^ebruary 21st, 



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