MARQUIS OF AYLESBURY.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 54, 15 October 1887, Page 2

MARQUIS OF AYLESBURY.

A LITTLE MOVE. London, October 13. The Marquis of Aylesbury has applied to lhe Chancery division Court of Justice for an injunction to restrain the Jockey Club from enforcing their recent disqualification. The scandalous turf swindling just now agitating London society is another quiet blow to the aristocracy, and is an evidence of the rottenness of the present state of things in English “ uppah circles.” The Marquis must be a “ queer card,” but as a colonial writer has said, there is a good deal of method in his madness: Referring to the death of his father, a London correspondent made the following remarks on the young scoundrel :— ■ The death of the Marquis of Aiiesbury raises to the peerage one of perhaps the most extraordinary specimens of hereditary rank that even recent days have seen. Lord Savernake who now becomes the Marquis of Ailesbury’ distinguished himself a few years ago by constantly appearing in public as a costermonger. He wore the usual stiff doth, cutaway flash coat, with rather large pearl buttons ; the tight corduroy breeches, with bell bottoms; the gaudy gipsy neokerohief, and the small peaked cap in which the well-known London character disports; and he also drove a small cart of the coster type. Among his other idiosyncrasies was his marriage, when he selected as the future Marchioness one of the young ladies whom Mr John Hollingshead used to produce in the burlesques of the Gaiety Theatre.