146 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Capt. Barclay of Ury, along with several other 

 females, and taken to Scotland. Her dam was 

 the famous Portia. At Ury Lady Sarah was 

 bred back to her own son, Monarch (4495), the 

 produce being the great breeding bull Mahomed, 

 (6170), sire of The Pacha (7612) and other ani- 

 mals from whence many of Scotland's greatest 

 cattle have descended. From this same Mason 

 sale also came Mary Ann (by Sillery), ances- 

 tress of a noted Scottish family. From Mr. 

 Holmes' purchases at this sale (taken to Ire- 

 land) Mr. Amos Cruickshank afterward ob- 

 tained the foundation dam of the Sittyton Vic- 

 torias; and last, but by no means least, we may 

 pass some credit to Mason of Chilton for the 

 ancestral dam of the now-celebrated Cruick- 

 shank bull-breeding Clipper tribe. 



Lord Althorpe (Earl Spencer). The nobility 

 displayed interest in the breed in the early 

 days as now. One of the first to engage in the 

 business was Lord Althorpe, afterwards Earl 

 Spencer, of Wiseton, near Doncaster. He was 

 prominent in politics for many years and on 

 that account unable to devote as much atten- 

 tion to the work as tenant farmers could give to 

 it, but he nevertheless managed to inform him- 

 self thoroughly and finally accumulated proba- 

 bly the largest herd of the day in England.* 



* Earl Spencer was at one time Chancellor of the Exchequer. Still he 

 had a much greater passion for Short-horns than for politics. John Grey of 



