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DEATH CLAIMS NOTED ENGLISH TURFMAN. Sir Charles Assheton-Smith died of heart troulile at his home in London September 24, after a long, painful confinement to his bed. The dead man was Englands foremost turfman iu the line of steeplechasing, and In his time thrice enjoyed tlie greatly coveted honor of winning the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, carrving off that great event witli Cloister in 1S!I3, Jerry M. in 1912, and Covertcoat in 1913. Cloister and Jerry M. each carried the record topweight for the race of li5 pounds, but Covertcoat only carried 100 pounds when he won last year. The latter tried to win it again this year and after he failed. Sir Charles purchased the winner, Sunloch, for 0,000. Sir Charles Gordon Assheton-Smith, whose homo was Vaynol Park, Bangor. North Wales, was born on April 10, 1S51, was a deputy-lieutenant of Carnarvonshire, and an alderman of the same county. He was the son of the late Robert George Duff, and assumed the name of Assheton-Smith in lieu of Duff in 1905. The deceased baronet married first, in 1S76. the Hon. Aland Frances Vivian who died In 1S93. the second daughter of the second Lord Vivian: and secondly, in 1891. Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Algernon Thomas Brinsley Sheridan, of Frampton Court. Dorset: and thirdly, hi 1902. he married Sybil Mary, daughter of the late Col. Henry William Verschoyle. Sir Charles lWlr Is Robert George Vivian Duff, who was born in 1S76. and married Lady Juliet Lowther, only daughter of the fourth Earl of Lonsdale.
