The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE MARQUIS OF
HASTINGS.

We have to record the deatu f the Marquis ..f
Hastings—a youthful nobleumn ,f high rank and
extensive property, of whom it may unfortunately be
written with some truth that he was his own worst
enemy. Since his return from Norway his health,
already much shattered, had continued rapidly to
decline, and for some time pant it had become evi-
nent to those about him that his end was not far dis-
tant. On Saturday last his sufferings increased, and
his condition became extremely alarming. From that
time his lordship continued rapidly to sink, and on
Tuesday at a quarter to one o'clock, he expired at his
town residence in Grosvenor-square. Lady Hastings
was with her husband to the last. He was sur-
rounded by the members of his family who were dearest
to him, and, up to the time that he became insensible,
as-ailed himself of the ministrations of the clergymen
in attendance. . .

Henry Waysford Plantagenet Hawdon Hasthigs, fourth
SWIM% of Hastings. Earl of Rawdon and Viscount Loudoun,
in the peerage of the I titeil Kingdom ; Bartel Rawdon, of
Bandon, In the county of Vora, in the peerage of Great
Britain; Baron Grey de Ruthyn, Hastings, Hungerford,
Newmarch Rotten. Molyns, and Moels, in the peerage of
England ; Earl id Loudoun and Baron Campbell of Lou-
-1101111, k., in the peerage of Scotland; Earl of Moira and
Baron Rawdon, in the )rage of Ireland; a baronet of Eng-
land, and one of the co-heirs of the barony if Montague, was
one of the peers who enj.yed the dignity of a coronet in each
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of the three kingdoms :.neEnglanni, Scotland, and Ireland—
the others being the Duke of Abereorn and the Earl of ye-
rulam. Ile was the younger min of George Augustus. second
Marquis of Hastings . who died in 1044 , by his wife Bar-
bara, int her own right Baroness Grey de Ruthyn, and was
born int July, 1042, so that he had only recently completed
Thu tliah year of his age. Ile succeeded to the other family
honours and estates on the death of his elder brother,
Panlyin Reginald, third Marquis, in January, ISIL and in-
herited his moth. 's barony on her death in 1850. He was
educated at Eton, and also at Christ Church, oxford ; and
from the time that he attained his majority was conspicuous
among the leaders of the turf, in which capacity his career
is but too well known to all our readers. Ile married, in
July, I'ol4, the Lady Florence Cecilia Paget, youngest
daughter of tine Marquis of Anglesey ; but by that marriage
his Lordship has left III) 1118ue to succeed hint.
'rite family from which tine Nlarquts sprung was noised
Raw lox, and they trace their descent to one l'aulynn, or
Paulinns Ic R104'41011, to whom the Conqueror granted large
estates In Yorkshire and the north of England, sonw of which
haye remained ink the hands of his descendants, in all ISlbrokon
stale line. down to the present day One of the itawdon
tinnily. who took an active part as a soldier In quelling the
Irish Rebellion in the reign of King Charles 1., was raised
li. in baronetcy by Charles 11., as Sir George Rawthnn, of
Moira, inn Vie county of Down His greet grandson attained
the honour of the Irish peerage a little more than a eon-
, tury since as Baron Bowdon and Earl of Moira until marry-
ing na his third wife the Lady Elisabeth Hastings, eldest
daughter of Theophilus, ninth Earl of Huntingdon, gained in
consequence possession of a large portion of the estates
which !ones belonged to that ancient and illustrious earldom. •
Ilia ssdn Francis, the second Earl of Moira, who a,sumed the
additional saint-of Hastings, after his mother, mc better
known to history as the first Marquis of Hastings, a title con-
ferred upon him in 10111, ills mune is remembered au a
popular statesonnm, a gallant soldier, an eloquent member of
the House of Peers, and also as having held for some years
the exalted post of Govermnr.Genneral of India. This noble-
nom by his marriage with Flora, inn tier own tight Countess
ml Lomionin WVI grandfather to the peer whose early decease
It bn our duty to record this day.
by h. Lordship's death the Marquisate and most of the
other honours which he enjoyed become extinct, while some
isnasihly will pass into abeyance between female heirs ; but
the Scotti,li Earldom of Loudoun devolves on his eldest
sister, Lady Edith Maud, who is married to Charles Frederick
Clifton, Eel., of Willersley, near Ashlw -de-la-batch, Lei-
cestershire, who has assumed the names of Abney-linstings,
annul has i.sue. II is Lordship's other sisters are Lady Bertha,
married to Captain Clifton, son of Mr. T. Clifton, of I ythom-
hall, I ancashire ; Lady Victoria Maria Lalligar married to
Mr. J. E. 0. Kirwan, of Moyne, county liabray ; and Lady
Frances Augusta Constance, who is the wife of Viscount
Nlarsham, eldest 801 l Id the Earl of Rollllloy.

The Daily Ncies has the following article on the
racing career of the Manlius --
"The Earl's year" has reso•lied a sad climax in t•m .leath of
its leading actor The Spider and the lip drama is ended.
That poor corisnAted youth who had crowded into six years
snore Corinthian excitement, and the weightier Turf sires,
that many' fast men " know In a lifetime, has hail down his
weary load, lie was only twenty-six in .1 sty, and he had
frittered away two fine family estates. Betting is said to be
the touchstone of the Englishman's sincerity, but with
the Marquis, a craving for the odds hail really become
a disease. He worshipped chance with all the ardour
of a fanatic. His wit•, were, he considered, worth
to him in the betting ring at least Xt20,000 a-year, out he I
s.met Mica threaded his way through the mazes of trials and
publie running with all the sagacity of a wizard. Its public ,
coup,/ were often so brilliant, that it was hardly to he
wondered at that its believed in his own destiny, and his
' smwer to tweak the ring. lie eared little whether the drain-
ing or other improvements on his Donnington estate were
stopped. if he only got fresh supplies for another Newmarket
campaign. The rifle, On the other hand, hail marked Idni for
their OWII, and never left his. They would cluster beneath
the hockey Clulo balcony at Epsom, bolding sip their
hands to claim his attention, and catching at Ins replies like
Ihmk of hungry hawks. 'there he would stand smiling at
' the wild tumult below, wearing his hat jauntily on One side,
i a red flower in his button-hole, alld his colours round his
neck, awl cool and calm while "the talent" made his horse
a "hot favourite" at once, tool a few slipped hack to the
ring to follow his lead. hers time he was a purfect. Corker
but he fell at last in the unequal strife, and the men who
had " trace" him most copiously were anomg those who
set their faces most sternly against hint when he wished to
see the Beatls once more.
The Marquis's taste for tlm turf was not an hereditary one,
Ills father's heart was With )101111d and li.ora, lie loved to
hallo " the red rascal" over the rides far better than watch-
ing the Leger horses else up round the Red-house turn.
Ilse men of the %lidlands still speak of hint as quite a re-
presentative sportsman with Will cioodall :Ind the "Sir
Barry," whom they In, I Si early. lie wool,' harilly have
~te hit I,rilreitytO

lii ly St, it 80111
!HA SIR cart fir wino of those thimiii S'ill tie emilit
lii war to see the Qllt ~Itlumt ain isles, aril he stepped
Imbily into the I wench mhen Mr dives rr.knrd iii 'Mi.
Ile n ore the holm at his ;addle IMOW for conformity's sake,
lila he never Idea it, and e let the field go its Onn Way, and
trolled the country on no systeni AMtof a ,allon, a cheek,
.11! to silt a faionnite I".* fr .-It
t Mitii his Minim, ihnii
. : rit tionnili hail ii puzzle it
oci ii.eu. circa 'di hoards lead reachen the meet,
1,. out f
1,;; • , is, 1 coca,,ionAly

fa 1,01.100 by 14,111 ti and give W iTaba time W 4,1,1 to
draw, when half the field had gone home. No wonder that
caricatures were drawn, and swill's flew gaily a dit. awl that
even LeiebAiersbh wou!,l ttLvr I.- m,tie the linear-
vein Grit, la :,e the rountiy iashion.
Satiri ail vi-r,r, failed to our 111111 110 VW: Ilic sti:lo i:bt
of tl,eir tail by lefoititing thee] at his on and
posbd thin, far and vole. lin the Lost day of lil,
Ship he Slii,pe,l quietly away to the station. ti,l when try
, looked for him to give hint a parting cheer he hail beeu well '
nigh gone an hour.
The honour of tieing the matt vtloo belongs to the [hike, •
or The Earl, or Little. Leeturer, was no landot, to him. He
' took quite naturally to the turf from the first, enfolded under
the wing of Dmebury. In 1062 not six people a,N'ewmarket
knew who the slim lad was on the grey cob; lag the ring
goon saw that he was a veritable Hampshire ambassador
whet; lie put down the money so unflinchingly on a
Dauchury not. To .1 ihn Day's suggestion that in his position
! he was morally bound to have a nice yearling or two of
I his own, he leant no ungracious ear. When the rivalry
round the Hampton-court and Miilille-park rings oh flint
foamed into madness, and 2.r00 guineas and 2.000 plineaS
, were among the yearling prices of one aftiquisin, he was
never tempted beyond 1.650 guineas for King Charles, and
1,500 guineas for Roliespierre. The former would have been
Idear at 50 guineas, arid the latter won well in the colours of
another ills two hest horses, The Duke 500 guineas anti
the Earl 450 guineas were among his cheapest muchases.
, The late Alfred Day first wore his colours on Garotter in the
Althorp Park Stakes at Northampton, and ,•;111,11 Rogers won
a maiden plate on that colt a few weeks afterwards. The
; first great victory for the "red and white hoops" was the
; Cambridgeshire I•f 1164, with Ackworth, which had been
I esteemed a lear two thousand lambast.. Gradually his
I stable swelled to upwards of thirty, and ahout 670,000 were
; the spoils of six seasons.
--• • •

Aft sr glancing at a few of big Igrmerogg..4 racing
speculations, the writer gOrg 011 tin Say
A winter's reflection con conceit his lordship that
Derma CI mild never win the Dellw, and inteLiiinn was the
price he paid for his thoughts. People w ere once wont to
tell, almi ist la-low their breath, that Davis, time Leviathan,"
hail been known ro nay away on the Derby. The pre-
sent age is capable of greater et!. its, as before the Monday
the bankers awl solicitors hail consulted, and the whole,,! the
Marquis's losinga were found fir him, Thus ',flair was averted
from " The Coiner," but the fair lands of LOlOOllll passed
from his hand. At Ascot his lucky star rose mice more. Lady
Elizabeth and Lecturer were both in form, and his lordship
kept backing them, and piling 011 the winnings again by a sort
of geometric progression, gambling till he hail won nearly
half " his ain again." It was now the turn for reverses. His
lordship rather fancied The Earl, but the stable ovemikil
lota in favour of Lady Elizabeth. The flying filly mania back
with a sadly chequered fame a bad fifth for the Middle Para
Plate, and yet the victress in one of the Trost wonderful of
modern matches at Mb with the three-yearmld
The Manilas load now fallen back again to early the same
" agony point" liii flimsier at when he saw the '• Be"i
handed home for the Derby. A weary winter followed, and
he was go driven from pillar to post by money troubles anal
turf creditors that he lost his interest in tttrf matters, and
his head for calculation with it. The irritable Lady Elizabeth ,
wasted to a shadow in her training ; and how The Earl was
scratched, and then became the hero of the Parisians. and
the Ascot visitors, and how the few words that were dropped
at York proved the precursor of his Leger doom, are all dark
pas ages of turf politics, and not easily forgotten. We saw
the last 4,t the Earl when he was bought hi as stout as a
burgomaster for 3,000 guineas at Tattersall's, neil then he
departed to Pontius with is leg, mem whose chances of
standing a preparation cools snail seemed to differ with his
The late Marquis has been abroad all the slimmer in his
yacht, but no northern breezes could fan him back to health.
He came to Doncaster, from Norway, on crutches, and looking
very ill and nervous, and well he might, as, instead of
having a St. Leger winner, lie hail only the lean comfort of a
veterinary certificate from Mr Mayor At the first October
he was 011 Newmarket Heath in a basket carriage, which he
quitted to may a word to the pretty Athena, hieh once
was a mare of mine," when she Wai lett hack a
winner. As at Doncaster, he did not go hi yon I ''a pony'
Or IWO. •' Mind I'm to have this paid." sabl one
ring man when he booked it to him, :mil after that
week they saw him no more. Nearly seven seasoos had
passed by shine he first came a lad of niee!een froth from
Eton to Newniarket, and he lent it 5 shattered roan, only to
die. Ile spent some time at F.- ikestone. awl visited town
for a few days before he set mu for a winter sojourn with Ids
wife ..11 the Nile. Some few bib lids dared to hope that he
might come back a new man and live .inietly in los old
country home, and train the foals by The link, It Wag not
to lie. "Alt the wheels were down," ami woe the fiairth
and the last Marquis of Ilastinzs only lives in race-course
story,