Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet
- Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet (1828 – 10 October, 1894) was an English soldier and sportsman, son of the 2nd Baronet (created 1821) and a descendant of Lord Astley. From 1848 to 1859 he was in the Scots Fusilier Guards, serving in the Crimean War and retiring as a Lieutenant-colonel. In 1858 he married an heiress and thereafter devoted himself to sports including horse racing and boxing. He was a popular figure on the turf, known familiarly as "the Mate" and for winning and losing large sums of money.
He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1873. From 1874 to 1880 was the Conservative Member of Parliament for North Lincolnshire. Just before his death in October 1894, he published some entertaining reminiscences under the title of "Fifty Years of My Life". This contains the first recorded appearance of the phrase "like a duck to water" - "I always took to shooting like a duck to water".
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