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generally had his guard up; but when he received a 

 letter, apparently from the EARL OF TANKERVILLE, say- 

 ing that he was to lot and sell the wild White cattle 

 of Ghillingham, he puzzled for minutes as to how on 

 earth His Lordship ever intended to catch them and 

 bring them into the ring before he guessed the joke 

 and its author. * * * BOOTH judged a good deal in 

 England, and never went for great size either in a 

 bull or a cow. As a man of fine, steady judgment in 

 a cattle ring, he has perhaps never had an equal. He 

 died in 1857, after a weary twelve months' illness, 

 in his seventieth year, at Killerby, and a memorial 

 window at Gatterick, where he rests, was put up by 

 his friends and neighbors and the Shorthorn world 

 as well." 



RICHARD BOOTH succeeded to his father's estate 

 of Warlaby in 1835. It is said that on his entrance 

 at Warlaby he did not at first contemplate any 

 special effort in the line of Shorthorn breeding. 

 Unlike his brother JOHN who had the traditional 

 Yorkshire love for the excitements of the race- 

 course and the hunting field RICHARD had never 

 been given to active pursuits, and "was only a quiet 

 gig-man" from the early days. Happily for the 

 breed, however, he changed his mind in relation to 

 cattle-breeding and devoted the remainder of his life 

 to the upbuilding of what was beyond all question 

 the most remarkable herd of its time and one of 



