52 The Life of Fred Archer 
had trained a Derby winner. This was George Frederick ; 
but Tom was dead ere that horse won in 1874. 
Below is the Golden Hart, where Harry Morgan, the jockey, 
went to live when Fred Archer wanted his own rooms at 
Heath House. On the left-hand side are the Rous and other 
roads, and the steep Palace Street, named after Charles II.'s 
old palace, of which little remains but the foundations. It 
has been rebuilt into Palace House, the late Mr. Leopold de 
Rothschild's place. Near it is All Saints' Church, in which is 
a window to the memory of Archer's wife. 
There is a bit of history connected both with Archer's 
village of Prestbury and Newmarket that is perhaps worth 
mentioning. The Honourable Berkeley Craven, Lord of the 
Manor of Prestbury, was allowed by his creditors to cross over 
from Paris to England, and to go to Newmarket for a month, 
in order, if possible, to retrieve his fortunes on the Heath. 
This permission the witty spendthrift termed " The Jews' 
Passover." He shot himself after Bay Middleton won the 
Derby in 1836, as he would not face a settling-day at Tatter- 
sail's, though had he stayed on until after the Oaks he would 
have made up for his losses on the Derby. 
Admiral Rous, of course, reigned in Newmarket for many 
years, and the memory of the racing dictator is still green in 
the town. Another old Newmarket celebrity, whose son and 
grandson both chronicled the doings of Fred Archer, was Mr. 
Wyndham Berkeley Portman, born June 4, 1804, died July 7, 
1883. He was the third son of the late Mr. Portman of Bryan- 
ston, and consequently the brother of the then Viscount 
Portman. From 1840 until 1882 he lived at the Lower Hare 
Park, Newmarket. Mr. Portman had served in the Royal 
Navy, and commanded a gunboat at the battle of Navarino. 
Although he never owned racehorses, he was for over thirty 
years a member of the Coffee Rooms, and for more than fifty 
years scarcely missed a Newmarket meeting. Throughout 
this period he was on intimate terms with the leading patrons 
