118 A HISTORY OP HEREFORD CATTLE 



vent of American buyers. His foundation stock was 

 mainly of the. Tomkins, Yarmouth, Weyman, 

 Vaughan and Galliers blood. He was regarded as 

 a breeder of exceptional judgment, and when the 

 herd was closed out in 1865 a large number of good 

 Sir Thomas cows and heifers were scattered among 

 the best herds of Herefordshire, proving in most 

 cases valuable acquisitions. Sir Thomas was the 

 result of sending the cow Lady Ann to Tom Kea's 

 at Westonbury to be bred to Sir Benjamin. In Oc- 

 tober, 1864, he was sold at auction at Hereford to 

 Mr. Monkhouse for 105 guineas. 



Mr. Eoberts was succeeded in the occupancy of 

 the farm of Ivingtonbury by Mr. Samuel Goode, who 

 purchased thirteen females of the Eoberts' blood. 

 He bred Herefords with success for some twenty 

 years, concentrating the Sir Thomas blood by the 

 use of the bulls Cremorne (5279) and Sir Henry 

 (5597). 



Carwardine. It was at Stocktonbury, the farm 

 of T. J. Carwardine, that Lord Wilton made his 

 mark, and it was upon this same farm that another 

 bull, destined to exert a powerful influence in Amer- 

 ica, was dropped. We refer to Anxiety (5188), of 

 which bull and his descendants there is much to be 

 said further on. 



The herd upon which Lord Wilton left such an in- 

 delible impress was founded in 1863 by the purchase 

 of some daughters of Sir Thomas from Mr. Monk- 

 house. The following year some cows and heifers 

 were added from the stock of Mr. Ashwood of Leint- 



