64 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



it is said that the young man here formed the opin- 

 ion that the white face should be firmly established 

 as a breed characteristic. He removed to Shrop- 

 shire in 1817 to manage the farm of Purslow, near 

 Craven Arms, taking with him many valuable cattle 

 from his father's herd and breeding them there until 

 about 1823. William Hewer's family meantime had 

 taken a farm called The Grove in Monmouthshire, 

 and John also managed that until some differences 

 with his relatives caused his removal into Hereford- 

 shire, where, during a long, busy and eminently use- 

 ful career, he occupied in turn Hill House, Aston 

 Ingham ; Moor House, Hereford ; Brandon Cottage ; 

 Hampton Lodge, near Hereford; Lower Wilcroft; 

 Palmer's Court, Holmer; Vern House, Marden; and 

 Paradise Villa, Marden, where he died at the ripe 

 old age of 86 years. 



Scale, quality and with the exception of one fam- 

 ily, possession of the white face distinguished the 

 Hewer Herefords. They were maintained for such 

 a long period of time and the letting of bulls on hire 

 was so extensively practiced that the blood of these 

 cattle became perhaps more widely disseminated 

 than that of any others during the period immediate- 

 ly preceding the establishment of the Hereford pedi- 

 gree record. There are said to have been five dif- 

 ferent strains specially valued in the Hewer herd, 

 one of which, called the Lofty s, was usually "tick- 

 faced," not the mottle-face so frequently seen in 

 those days, but one with minute ticks or specks of a 

 bluish tint. The bulls Wonder (420) and Governor 



