AND EASILY AMASSED WEALTH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9305, 22 March 1907, Page 2

AND EASILY AMASSED WEALTH.

No more ifcragic story is contained in the history of the turf than, that relating to the life and death of the unfortunate young Marquis of Hastings. Born on the 22nd of July, 1842, by the death of an elder brother he succeeded to the title and an immense patrimony when he was only nine yiears old ; and seemingly at ,hat time no 1 prospects could have been brighter or faairer than his. Yet only a little over 26 years later the young Marquis had passed away, a ruined man both in mind and in pocket. At the outset of his racing career he was fairly successful, among his big betting coups being the winning of £75,000 over the Cesarewitch, which Lecturer won. His good fortune, however, seems to have turned has head, for, commencing to gamble irecklesslyy and at times with a perverse blindness to the dictates of his own common sense, he soon lost heavily. Over the sensational Derby, which Hermit, in spilfce of the fact that he had broken a blood, vessel but a few days before, won in 1867, .h* lost considerably more than £100,000, and was compelled to sacrifice his magnificent estate of Loudon in Scotland in order to meet his debts. His pride urged him to pay his creditors to the uttermost farthing, as the owner of the winner was Mr Henry Chaplan, whose finance, Lady Florence Paget, he had induced to arum away with him, and 1 marry him, three shoxt years before ; and he could not brook that his rival should in any way have cause to point the finger of scorn at him.