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English: "Newmarket 1885", caricature by Liborio Prosperi published in Vanity Fair 30 November 1885. Source for persons portrayed [1] and [2]; 19 persons portrayed as follows, left to right:
- 1: "Lord Hastings": George Manners Astley, 20th Baron Hastings, 10th Baronet Astley (1857-1904) of Melton Constable Hall in Norfolk and Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland, breeder and owner of Melton, winner of both The Derby and the St Leger in 1885.
- 2: "Henry Chaplin": Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840-1923) of Blankney Hall, Lincolnshire, racehorse owner and Conservative Party politician raised to the peerage in 1916. In 1864 Chaplin became engaged to Lady Florence Paget, a daughter of Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, but shortly before the planned wedding she eloped with Henry Rawdon-Hastings, 4th Marquess of Hastings. Chaplin had his revenge on the turf when his horse Hermit won the 1867 Derby, which Hastings had wagered thousands of pounds against. Hastings lost heavily and fell into severe debt. Adding to a drinking problem, Chaplin's great rival died in poverty the following year, aged 26.
- 3: Robert Peck (1845-1899), owner and trainer, of Beverley House Stables and Park Lodge Stables, Newmarket and Russley Stables, Wiltshire (1880). Trained Derby winners Doncaster (1873) and Bend Or (1880)[3].
- 4: Earl of Rosebery
- 5: John Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835-1910), known as the "Red Earl" because of his distinctive long red beard;
- 6: William George Craven (1835-1906), landowner and racing administrator, officer in the Life Guards, son of Hon. George Augustus Craven (1810-1836), a younger son of William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven. He married Lady Mary Catherine Yorke, a daughter of Charles Philip Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke;
- 7: Edmund Tattersall (1816-1898), Director of racehorse auctioneers Tattersalls, the firm founded by his ancestor Richard Tattersall (1724–1795). He resided at the Rutland Arms when in Newmarket.
- 8: Fred Archer (mounted) - Frederick James Archer (1857-1886), "the best all-round jockey that the turf has ever seen"
- 9: w:Mathew Dawson (1820–1898), trainer, in a career which lasted from 1840 until his death in 1898 he trained the winners of twenty-eight British Classic Races. He operated from satbles at Russley Park, near Lambourn, then in 1866 moved to Newmarket, first at St Mary's Square and then Heath House, where he had his greatest successes. Fred Archer came to Dawson as an apprentice in 1868 and became his stable jockey in 1874, and credited Dawson's training with much of his future success. Archer married Dawson's niece, Helen Rose Dawson. In 1885 Dawson retired from large-scale training and moved to Exning Manor, which he renamed Melton House.
- 10: Captain w:James Octavius Machell (1837–1902), a trainer, of Bedford Lodge Stables, Newmarket, an influential figure in British horse racing during the final decades of the 19th century;
- 11: "Duchess of Manchester": Luise Friederike Auguste, Countess von Alten (1832-1911), a German-born aristocrat later referred to as the "Double Duchess" due to her marriages, firstly to William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester (1823-1890) and then to the 8th Duke of Devonshire (in 1885 still Marquess of Hartington, standing beyond her at right).
- 12: "Marquess of Hartington": Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908), styled Lord Cavendish of Keighley between 1834 and 1858 and Marquess of Hartington between 1858 and 1891. Later the second husband of the Duchess of Manchester, depicted in front of him.
- 13: Prince of Wales (future King Edward VII)
- 14: Duke of Portland
- 15: Marquess of Londonderry
- 16: Caroline Agnes Horsley-Beresford (1818-1894), (Duchess of Montrose), a daughter of John Horsley-Beresford, 2nd Baron Decies, widow successively of James Graham, 4th Duke of Montrose (1799-1874) and of the Scottish aristocrat and millionaire William Stuart Stirling-Crawfurd (1819-1883), of Milton in Lanarkshire and of Sefton Lodge in Newmarket (named after his 1878 Derby winner), a member of the Jockey Club who financed the establishment of the Manton stables on Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire under the management of the trainer Alec Taylor, Senior. After Stirling-Crawfurd's death she raced under the pseudonym "Mr Manton" as women were then not permitted under Jockey Club rules to own racehorses; in 1885 and beyond she had horses with Alec Taylor at Manton, as well as at her own stables at Sefton Lodge.
- 17: Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), head of N M Rothschild & Sons in London, the family's bank.
- 18: Lieutenant-Colonel w:Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet (1828-1894) was an English soldier and sportsman. "A name that conjures up the very spirit that made (Newmarket) the racing headquarters of the world" (Newmarket Local History Society [4]). Identifiable by his beard and exaggeratedly wide-legged stance, illustrated in other caricatures of him.
- 19: Duke of Hamilton
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