76 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



and Tobias (487), a show bull himself and sire, it 

 is said, "of more prize animals than any other bull 

 that has ever been in the country." The Yeld fam- 

 ily holds a prominent place in Hereford traditions. 



The Turners of Aymestry, Noke Court and The 

 Leen, have written their names indelibly in Hereford 

 trade annals. James, the grandfather, commenced 

 at Aymestry by purchasing at the Galliers sale at 

 Wigmore Grange in 1795. In 1803 he challenged the 

 countryside to show a six-year-old ox for 100 

 guineas, "for weight and least coarse meat." Hia 

 son Philip and the latter 's son Arthur P., have 

 helped make modern Hereford history and will be 

 again referred to. The elder Turner used bulls 

 from Jeffries, Knight and other leading contem- 

 porary breeders, and bred the bull Chance (348), 

 the accidental mating of which with one of his own 

 daughters produced the renowned Sir David (349). 



Tench of Bromfield, the Messrs. Williams of 

 Thingehill Court and Brinsop, Weymen of Moreton 

 and Stockton, John Morris of Stocktonbury, Jones 

 of Breinton, Sir Hungerford Hoskyris of Harewood 

 Grange, W. C. Hay ton of Moreton Court, Bluck, 

 Parry, Kedward, Rocke, Clarke, Longmore, Carpen- 

 ter and a score of their contemporaries should be 

 named and deserve to have their exploits in Here- 

 fordom recounted, but this portion of our story al- 

 ready grows too long and we can pay only this pass- 

 ing tribute to their work. 



Pedigree Registration Established. The Here- 

 ford Herd Book of England was established in 1846. 



