Reminiscences of the Turf, with Anecdotes and Recollections of Its Principal Celebrities (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...brother Henry made coroner. His lordship said it should be done; and shortly after my brother was appointed to the Coronership of Hertfordshire, which he retained to his death, in 1883. Pew noblemen, and probably no other commoner, would have done such a thing. Indeed, he dealt very differently with other people that he employed, none of whom could scarcely ever approach him on any pretence whatever. Yet I am reminded that his butcher did get at him one day, by accident, and would not leave him until he had been paid his long-standing account. But when it was paid, and the receipt duly signed, his lordship drew on a glove, and, taking up the pen which had been used for the purpose, threw it out of the window, in utter contempt for 'such a mean action' as a man's asking for his own. I remember that, in regard to one question largely affecting soeiety, his lordship held a distinct individual opinion. He thought that any restraint on unfortunates would be a far greater social evil than any created by permitting them freedom of Action. He reasoned that if restraint were used, the respectable part of Society would meet with much greater molestation and annoyance than they are now subjected to. Curiously, for some cause or other, his lordship was always late at any civic feast or banquet which he attended, and invariably excused himself by saying, 'Public business must be attended to, your Eoyal Highness, ' or whoever may have been presiding. Such were some of the doings of a nobleman who lived to a good old age, died in harness, lamented by the whole nation, and was accorded a public funeral. Sir Lewin Glyn was rather before my time, for I see that he commenced racing in 1828. I have always heard him spoken of as a gentleman who was fond of the sport, and whose c...