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SPORTING EARL

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DETAILS OF EARL OF DURHAM'S CAREER

GIMCRACK CLUB SPEECH

Sir John George Lambton, K.G.,

G.C.V.O., P.C.,

third Earl of Durham, Vlacount Lambton, and Baron Durham, whose death, 19 briefly men- tioned at the time by Reuter, took place at Newmarket, was born on June 19, 1855, the older of twin sons of the second Earl, his mother being the. second daughter of the Duke of Abercorn.

House of Commons and acquiring a little experience of Parliamentary life; but his father's death, in 1879, nipped the project in the bud, the successor to the title and Lambton 'Castle and extensive estates being called upon to take his scat in the House of Lords. Fond of travel, in the winter of 1881-82 he started off with the fifth Earl of Ilchester on a big-game shooting expedition, which proved very successful, while in 1886 he travelled through the United States and Canada to the Pacific.

his own costs. 'An. Inquiry was Instituted by the Jockey Club, and Sherrard and Wood wero penalised.

At the Coronation

Lord Durham took the greatest interest in the Volunteer Foreo and Territorial Army. In 1887 he be- came Hon. Colonel of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion the North- umberland Fusiliers, and in 1905 of the 8th Territorial' Battalion the Durham Light Infantry. Three years later, when he began his pre- sidency of the Durham Territerial| Force Association, he was made Hon. Colonel of the Durham Royal Field (Reserve) Artillery, and, in On his return, he took a

than unusually active in-1921, of the Durham R.G.A. (T.F.).

In 1899 he was Mayor of Durham,. No record exists of any other per- terest in the Turf, and was al- and was chosen Chancellor of Dur- sons having inhabited the Lamb ways anxious to free it of all hate-ham University in 1919. At the ton lands before the family whose ful influences.

An outspoken speech Coronation descendants still occupy them. Ac- which he made at the Gimcrack Queen's Ivory Rod with the Dove, cording to Surtees, in his history Club dinner at York in December, and in the same year he was ap- of the country of Durham, many 1887, led to a sensational libel pointed Lord High Steward to the of the Lambton family records action. He did not mention any King during his. Mapeaty's visit to were destroyed during the time person by name, but there could be India. Не had been created

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of the Civil Wars, and conse-no mistake that he had in mind Sir Knight of the Garter in 1909; in the quently the regular pedigree George Chetwynd, whose horses place of the late Earl of Licester; the were trained by Sherrard and rid-and in 1911 he was made a Privy Councillor and awarded the Grand twelfth century, but, the previ- den by Charles Wood.

Lord Durham spoke of "a well-Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. ous residence of the family is well proved by attestations of charters known, and what the sporting Press Lord Durham married, in 1882, and incidental evidence from a call a fashionable and aristocratic Ethel Elizabeth Louisa, second period very nearly approaching the racing stable that has been cons-daughter of the late Mr. Henry Norman Conquest. Robert de picuous throughout the racing sea- Beilby Milner, of West Retford Lambton, wilo died in 1850, was so for the constant and inexplic House, Nottinghamshire, second son Lord of Lambton, and the eighth able in-and-out running of its of Sir William Mardaunt Sturt in descent from him was Sir William horses. But the darkest part of Milner, fourth baronet, of Nun- Lambton, colonel of infantry in the the matter is this, that the owners, appleton Hall, Yorkshire. He service of King Charles 1, one of nominal owners, of the horses leaves no children, and the heir to whose sons was killed in the Royal to which I am alluding win large the title is his twin brother, the cause, while another was colonel of stakes when their horses are suc- Hon. Frederick William Lambton, horse of the hishopric of Durham.

cessful, but do not lose much when who was M.P. for South Durham they are beaten. If you wish to from 1880 to 1885, Sunderland in purify the Turf you must go to the 1906, and for South-East Durham fountain head."

from 1890 to 1910. The new peer married, in 1870, Beatrix second daughter of Mr. John Bulteel, of Pamflete, Devon.

In The Coldstream Guards In 1828 the then head of the family, Mr. Juhn George Lambton, Sir George Chetwynd sent a re- was Baron Durham in the House of [lative to Lord Durham to ask whe- Lords, and he was still further ele- ther he (Sir George) was the person, ivated in 1833, being raised attacked. Lord Durham at once

to the Viscountey of Lambton and the Earldom of Durham. He was our Ambassador at St. Petersburg, and became famous as the Governor- General of the British provinces in North America, on whose "report," following the insurrection of the French Canadians in 1838, the pre- sent system of Canadian govern- ment was founded. He died in 1840, and the late Earl was third in descent from him.

The late peer, who wan Lord Lieutenant and'custos rotulorum of County Durham, was educated in the first instance at Cheam, a well- known preparatory school in Surrey, and in due course he found his way to Eton. He made his bow in the hunting-field at a very early age, being entered to fox with Lord Wemyss's Hounds, but as a little |boy on a diminutive pony, he broke his leg by a fall when less than 10 years old.

said frankly that he meant Sir George, repeated the charges, and also wrote, 'I also accuse Sir George Chetwynd of having connived at serious malpractices which are con- trary to the rules of racing."

THE INDOOR MAN.

Sir George immediately brought an action for libel, claiming: £20,000 damages. After some litigation and much discussion, the case was re- ferred by consent to the Stewarde of the Jockey Club. Mr. James ("Jimmy") Lowther, M.P., Prince Soltykoff, and the Earl of March. Mr. Lowther, as senior steward of the club,, presided, and a brilliant array of legal talent was on each side. Sir Henry (Land) James, Mr. E. H. Pollard, Mr. A. T. Lawrence (Lord Trevethin, who was Lord Chief Justice in 1921-2), and Mr. Rufus Isaaca (the Marquis

Many an indoor worker becomes of Reading) appeared for "Sir

so "chained to his desk" that he George Chetwynd, and Sir Charles neglects to take sufficient out-door Russell (Lord of Killowen, Lord exercise, and as a result he suffere With his twin-brother, Frederick Chief Justice), Matthews, and Mr. from constipation, torpid liver, and] William, he joined the Coldstream Magniac for the Earl of Durham. the many ailments arising there- Guards in 1874, and the atrking The hearing of the

case lasted from. likeness each bore to the other was twelve days, being interrupted for To all such Pinkettes are just the cause of many an amusing in- Ascot week.

the needed corrective. They gently cident. After serving five years Eventually the arbitrators award-stimulate the liver, dlapel constip

Of chemists everywhere.

he left that distinguished regimented Sir George Chetwynd one faration, sick headaches and billous, with the intention of entering the thing damages, each person to pay attacks.

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