OBITUARY. 
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OBITUARY. 
THE LATE MR. LACEY. 
It will be seen that in our last number we recorded the 
death of this gentleman. Mr. Lacey having for so long a 
period occupied a position in the town and county of Not- 
tingham which brought him frequently before the public, the 
following brief account will perhaps be interesting to many of 
our readers. He was the son of Mr. Daniel Lacey, of Not- 
tingham, and was born 11th June, 1777- He was brought 
up as a veterinary surgeon, and, in the year 1800, succeeded 
to the business of the late Mr. John Mills. In 1809 he joined 
the 1st Regiment of the Nottinghamshire Militia, of which 
corps the present Ichabod Wright, Esq., of Mapperley, was 
then Colonel-Commandant. Mr. Lacey’s commissions therein 
were — Ensign 1809. Lieutenant 1810, Captain 1813. He 
was afterwards for many years a Lieutenant in the South 
Notts Yeomanry Cavalry. On his retirement from each of 
these respective regiments he was presented with a handsome 
piece of plate, in testimony of the estimation in which he 
was held by his brother officers. He continued in the prac- 
tice of his profession up to the year 1 827, when he turned his 
attention to agricultural pursuits, occupying a farm under the 
late Mr. Musters, at Colwick. In 1834 he removed to his 
late residence at Adbolton, which place he with much taste 
rendered one of the most gentlemanly and compact resi- 
dences in the neighbourhood. 
Mr. Lacey was through life much attached to sporting 
as well as agricultural pursuits. He was the owner 
of two excellent mares, Miss Craigie, by Orville, out of 
Marchioness, and Stella, by Sir Oliver, out of Scotilla. 
From the former he bred Birmingham, by Filho-da- 
puta, (winner of the St. Leger in 1830, when 27 started), 
Wolverhampton, Boscobel, and several others. From Stella 
he bred Independence, Colwick, (both considerable winners), 
and two or three more. He also bred Ludlow, and divers 
other winners. He was for a lengthened period clerk of the 
course at Nottingham, a commissioner of sew^ers for the 
county, and a trustee of several of the turnpike roads in the 
county. To him the public are mainly indebted for the bridge 
over the railway on the Flood Road. The crossing of that 
great and important thoroughfare on the level had, by means 
of the extraordinary influence then possessed by Mr. George 
Hudson and his railway allies in the House of Commons, been 
