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HENRY DUDDING. 



Mr. Henry Dudding was the last representative of a family 

 noted as agriculturists in Lincolnshire, for upwards of two 

 hundred years. He was boi'n at Panton, in Lincolnshire, 

 in April, 18.'U, and was the son of Richard Dudding, w^ho 

 occupied a very considerable holding on the Turnor estate, as 

 his father had done before him. In the early eighties, after 

 the death of his father, Mr. Dudding moved to Riby, and 

 occupied farms there under Capt. Pretyman, and Lord Yar- 

 borough, up to the time of his death. His forebears had 

 always been noted breeders of pedigree stock, but at Riby, 

 Mr. Dudding greatly enhanced the family reputation by his 

 phenomenal success with Lincolnshire Long-wool sheep, and 

 with Shorthorn cattle. Buyers would come from all parts of 

 the world to his annual sales, and in the capacity of Judge, he 

 himself travelled far and wide. He was an exhibitor on a large 

 scale, and in the year 1906 his shearling ram, champion at the 

 Derby Royal Show, was sold for the record price of 1,450 

 guineas. Mr. Dudding was a man of wide interests, and was 

 actively concerned in the management of many Agricultural 

 and Breed Societies. In politics he was a Conservative, but he 

 took no active part in political work. He joined the Royal 

 Agricultural Society in the year 1870, and was elected a Member 

 of Council, representing his native county, in 1906. Mr. Dudding 

 w^as never married, and his death, a few days after an operation, 

 occurred on the 8th December last. 



GEORGE TAYLOR. 



Another noted Shorthorn breeder has been removed by the 

 death of Mr. George Taylor, who passed away, after a painful 

 and protracted illness, on August '2^^ 1912. Mr. Taylor was 

 born on January 15, 1852, at Stanton Prior, Somersetshire — 

 the home of his father and grandfather. Here he established 

 his celebrated herd of Bates Shorthorns in the year 1878 by 

 purchasing three of the best cows at the sale of Mr. Thomas 

 Harris, of Bromsgrove. The herd was removed to Cranford 

 Park in the year 1891. From its foundation careful records 

 wvre kept, and these show that the production of animals 



