Maj-Gen Sir Randle Guy Feilden, KCVO

In 1952, he became a steward of the Jockey Club, and went on to become chief steward. He became a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1953 Coronation Honours As senior steward he was responsible for the introduction of starting stalls, and arranged for the Jockey Club to be given a royal charter in 1970 by Queen Elizabeth II, the first to be granted to any sporting body. He was chairman of the Turf Board from 1965 to 1967, and became High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1971, and a deputy lieutenant on 24 January 1975. He lived at Old Manor House, Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, where he died on 27 October 1981. An annual horse race, the Feilden Stakes, was named in his memory in 1982 - from Wikipedia TPD 4/9/22