124 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Mercury (3967), bred by the late Philip Turner, of 

 The Leen, father of Arthur Turner, the present 

 owner of that rightly world-renowned herd. Mer- 

 cury was the sire of Mr. Taylor's grand show bulls, 

 Tredegar and Thoughtful. 



"I always think Tredegar was quite one of the 

 very grandest types of Hereford bulls I ever saw. 

 He was masculine in character, long, low, and deep, 

 and equally good at all points. Mercury, too, on his 

 dam's side came from that excellent family which 

 was so highly thought of at the dispersion of Philip 

 Turner's cattle, when The Grove 3d was sold. His 

 dam was Rhodia by Subaltern (2794), which was 

 also the dam of the Royal winner Gladys, which I 

 purchased as a two-year-old at that sale for 100 

 guineas for my own herd on the advice of Philip 

 Turner. His advice was greatly valued on that oc- 

 casion by the writer, who purchased considerably at 

 that sale and was the last bidder for The Grove 3d 

 himself before he was knocked down to his. fortunate 

 American purchaser. From this it will be seen that 

 Anxiety owes much of his concentrated good blood 

 to the three great herds of Philip Turner of The 

 Leen, William Taylor of Showle Court, and T. Ed- 

 wards of Wintercott." 



Lord Wilton (4740). In the light of latter-day 

 Hereford history Mr. .Carwardine's purchase of 

 Lord Wilton, to follow Rodney 'and Anxiety, must be 

 pointed out as one of the rarest bits of good fortune 

 of which the story of the breed has record. Mr. Tudge 

 had sold the bull to Mr. Lewis Lloyd of Monk's 

 Orchard, Surrey, who had successfully shown good 

 bullocks got by him at the Smithfield Show. He was 

 taken to the Kilburn Royal Show of 1879, but had 



