… of Parliament and politicians were spending their time gambling at the races rather than attending to the matters of state. At the end of the century, The Jockey Club , or A Sketch of the Manners of the Age (1792) by Charles Piggott …
… the soul and spirit of Brooks’s Club, was respected as a clubman: '[…] that amazing genius and prodigal scholar, wit, statesman, gambler, rake, affectionate husband, and the best loved man of his time.' 18 On the contrary, Beau Brummel’s …