112 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



excellence was attested by a list of 27 Royal prizes 

 won with 33 entries. 



In ' * Saddle and Sirloin, ' ' Mr. H. H. Dixon writes : 

 "We could not pass Shrewsbury without seeing 

 Lord Berwick's Hereford herd. At any other tima 

 we should have delighted to linger in those rich pas- 

 tures to which Walford, Attingham, Albert Edward, 

 and Severn had lent so much renown, but the shadow 

 of death was on the house, and the agonies of an 

 illness such as few have borne were about to re- 

 ceive their grand relief at last. Farming 

 was not his only delight when in health. He loved 

 to rear the choicest fowls and drive the best Ameri- 

 can trotters, and he made a rifle at his forge which 

 one of our first makers, in ignorance as to its origin, 

 pronounced to be nearly faultless. He had suc- 

 ceeded to an incumbered estate, and knowing how 

 to ' scorn delight, and live laborious days,' he had 

 the courage to be .content with his little home at 

 Cronkhill instead of his stately hall at Attingham, 

 and accomplish the purpose of his life, to leave a. 

 clear inheritance for those who were to come after." 



Taylor of Showle Court. William Taylor was for 

 many years "in the money" at the national shows. 

 He bred the bull Longhorns (4711), that scored such 

 great success as a sire in the herd of Mr. Carwar- 

 dine. The celebrated Anxiety (5188), that probably 

 made a greater impression upon the breed in Amer- 

 ica than any other one animal ever imported, was by 

 Longhorns, and the cows left to his cover at Stock- 

 tonbury proved remarkable mothers. Another great 

 bull bred by Mr. Taylor was Tredegar (5077), that 

 won 379 in prizes, including a championship over 



