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  Evolution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-30)
In 1855 Francis Villiers, younger brother of Lord Jersey, fled the country leaving ₤100,000 in racing debts; he was a Steward of the Jockey Club at the time.
Lord Derby constituted himself the conscience of the Jockey Club; he called for Adkins to be warned off.
When Rous emerged as 'Dictator' in the early 1860's, it was seen that his attitude to racing was at once high-mined and practical.
www.ttra.net /Evolution/evolution.html   (3116 words)

  
 Clan/Family Histories
MacDonald, Lord of the Isles, was once a thorn in the side of Scottish kings.
The name is derived from Maccus, son of Undewyn, a Saxon lord who was given a grant of land on the Tweed by King David I before 1150.
Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford) won the Nobel Prize for chemistry and is also known as the "father of atomic power".
www.rampantscotland.com /clans/clans_index.htm   (1733 words)

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