A TITLED SCOUNDREL.

West Coast Times, Issue 6622, 28 October 1887, Page 4

A TITLED SCOUNDREL.

An official investigation has been made into the charge preferred against the Marquis of Ailesbury and his trainer regarding the Buspicious running of the horse named Everitt in the race for the Harewood Plate at the late York meeting. The borse was the property of the Marquis of Ailesbury, and the charge was that Everitt, who was apparently winning in a canter, was pulled, so that the result was a dead heat with Lord Laßcelles's horse, Whittington. The stewards of the Jockey Club have decided that the charge of unfair running has been fully proved, and both the Marquis and his trainer have been warned off the Newmarket course for life, on the ground that the jockey was ordered to lose. George William Thomas BruclenellBruce, fourth Marquis Ailesbury, tenth Earl of Cardigan, Earl of Ailesbury, Earl Bruce, Viscount Savernake, Baron Brudenell, Baron Bruce, and a baronet, was born in 1863, and succeeded his grandfather, well known as Lord Ernest Bruce, who represented the family borough of Marlborough, Wilts, from the paHsing of the Reform Bill in 1832 till the death of his brother, the second marquis, so recently as 1886. The gifts of fortune are not wanting to enable the possessor of so many titles to sustain the dignity of his rank in a becoming manner, the rentroll of the family estates, both in Wiltshire and Yorkshire, which latter include the historic abbey of Jorveaux, being ample for all reasonable requirements. His Lordship's great grandmother, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, of the Tolleraache, or Dysarfc family, is still one of the most prominent figures in London society, and for social purposes he has his grandfather's town house, No 6 St George's place, Hyde Park Corner, Savernake Forest House in Wiltshire and a villa near Biarritz, also inherited from his grandfather. His heraldic coat swarms with quarterings and crests apertainiug to the Bruces and Brudenelis ; but of the alternative mottoes, Think and Thank, or Fuimus, the present possessor of the title appears to have selected the latter, his pride of place not sufficing to defer him from contracting a discreditable mesalliance, nor from the more heinous offence of "roping" a horse. The first misdemeanor excluded him from society ; the second has rendered his appearance on an English racecourse impossible. Thus ostracised, nothing seems left for this ignoble aristocrat but a visit to Australia or a trip to the Rocky Mountains, in which fastnesses he may hide his diminished head.