biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1774–1849)
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| biography:
| British breeder of horses, known as ‘the father of the Turf’. He became an MP (1754–90), was a founder of the Jockey Club, and established horse-training at Newmarket. In 1847 he gave to the nation the Vernon Gallery. |
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