The Life of Fred Archer 67 
of satisfaction beaming over the broad genial face of the 
trainer." 
We are told elsewhere that Archer was riding St. Pancras 
when he thus attracted The Master's attention. 
In 1869, the year after Archer was apprenticed, Lord Fal- 
mouth resolved to link his racing fortunes with those of Mathew 
Dawson at Heath House. Up to that time Fortune had not 
smiled upon the Cornish peer, although John Scott had won 
him the Oaks with Queen Bertha. Had his loidship died in 
that year, his name would have gone down the stream of 
time as that of a man who owned racehorses for twenty 
years and won but two races which were worth recording 
— namely, the One Thousand of 1862 and the Oaks of 
1863. 
But from the time he sent his horses to Heath House his 
racing career was one long-sustained hymn of perpetual 
triumph. Just about this time Mathew Dawson's connection 
with the somewhat reckless Dukes of Hamilton and Newcastle 
ceased, and he had more room and more time to bestow upon 
his new patron. His new apprentice, too, was growing up 
ready to win for Lord Falmouth the greatest series of victories 
that the world has ever seen. The proximity of Archer was 
just luck perhaps, but the choice of Mathew Dawson as a 
trainer was part of the wisdom which brought about much of 
Lord Falmouth's success as a breeder and owner of thorough- 
breds. 
Lord Falmouth was born on March 18, 18 19, his father 
being John Evelyn, son of the third viscount. He was educated 
at Eton and Christchurch, called to the Bar in 1841, and married, 
in 1841, Baroness Le Despencer, of Mereworth Castle. He was 
one of the most popular, genial, and high-minded noblemen 
ever tried by the fiery furnace of the British Turf. He was 
one of the most generous of men, and so interested was he in 
sport that he spent several months of each year at Newmarket 
in studying his horses, and consulting with Mathew Dawson 
