THE FAEMEE'S MAGAZINE. 



BECEMBEE, 1858. 



PLATE I. 

 PORTRAIT OV JAMES MORRELL, ESQ., 



OF HEADINGTON HILL, OXFORD. 



PLATE II. 

 CARLISLE; A Hereford Cow. 



THE PROPERTY OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LORD BERWICK, OF CRONKHILL, SHREWSBURY, 



JAMES MORRELL, ESQ., OF HEADINGTON HILL, OXFORD. 



Few persons have ever more deservedly ranked among popular men, either as magistrate, sporstman, 

 agriculturist, or labourer's friend, than the " Fine old English Gentleman" whose portrait we here give. 



Mr. Morrell, now in his forty-eighth year, was educated at Eton ; the owner of very considerable 

 estates, he is ever ready to co-operate with, and aid the British Farmer in all matters where " Progress" 

 is the watchword and " Onwards " the motto, in any well considered and judicious improvement or 

 pursuit— anxiously solicitous that the honest labourer's heart may never know distress, and who, 



" When the poor want aid. 

 Denies them nothing but his name." 



The pages of the Sporting Magazine for this month record the particulars of his never-to-be-for- 

 gotten decade as master of the O. B. H.; and Oxford attests the ever memorable year of his shrievalty 

 in 1853; whilst within the walls of his magnificent and newly erected mansion, on which the motto of 

 an old baronial residence might most fitly be inscribed — 



" Thro' this wide opening gate. 

 None come too early, none return too late," 



such princely hospitality is dispensed, that we echo but the public voice in affirming there is but 07ie 

 Headington Hill to look from, owe Oxford to look at, and hat one James Morrell for hospitality and 

 benevolence, as " of the olden time." 



OLD SERIES.] I I [VOT . XT.IX— Ko. P. 



