Derby
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A stiff felt hat with a dome-shaped crown.
(2): (n.) A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
County town of Derbyshire, on the Derwent, with manufactures of silk, cotton hosiery, lace, porcelain, &c.; it is the centre of a great railway system.