Word: turfman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Samuel Clay Hildreth, 63, famed oldtime turfman; in Manhattan; after an operation to correct intestinal disorders...
Married. Miss Gertrude Ellen du Puy Sanford of Manhattan, sister of Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford (international poloist and turfman), to Sidney Jennings Legendre of New Orleans, La., Princeton athlete (1925) and adventurer (she went with him last year to the Mountains of the Moon, Abyssinia, on a museum trip); in Manhattan...
Died. The Earl of Durham, 74, famed English turfman, huntsman, landowner (30,000 acres); of influenza; in his ancestral Lambton Castle, Durham, England. He had held his title only five months, having succeeded his twin brother...
...relative of famed Turfman & Sport & Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair...
Died. George Lambton, 73, 3d Earl of Durham, famed English turfman, landlord & coal tycoon; after a long illness; in London. He owned race horses for 50 years, never placed a bet, won only one English classic. The late Lord Randolph Churchill once described him as "prominent among the gilded youth who throng the corridor of the Gaiety Theatre, but who have studied politics about as much as Barnum's white elephant and upon whose ingenious mind even the idea of rendering service to the state has not yet commenced to dawn...