288 SOME YORKSHIRE SHORTHORNS. 



A Yorkshire herd which was dispersed in July, 

 1888, and which was in some respects a typical 

 one, was that at Scawsby Hall, which was formed by 

 the late Mr. George Mann and his father, and 

 which, though falling far below those at Bainesse 

 and the Manor House, Catterick, as regards show- 

 yard successes, still took a fair share of prizes 

 and at which were bred several high priced 

 animals that have been exported to America, 

 North and South ; animals that have won 

 a deservedly high reputation in their new 

 country. 



The late Mr, Mann was a type of the old- 

 fashioned yeoman farmer, now alas, becoming 

 scarcer every year. Contemporary with Mr. 

 John Outhwaite, there was some similarity 

 between them — for although Mr. Mann was by 

 no means so ready a speaker as Mr. Outhwaite, 

 and was of a more retiring disposition, he was 

 a keen judge of stock, and was possessed of much 

 of the ready humour which characterised the 

 genial and popular founder of the Bainesse herd. 

 He was also a warm hearted and free handed 

 man, and was deservedly esteemed by all who 

 had the privilege of his acquaintance. 



His father came from Nottinghamshire in 1702, 

 and commenced farming at Marr Grange, near 

 Sprotbro', and here Mr. George Mann was born 

 in 1803. When he was nineteen years old, 

 Scawsby Hall form, then in a very poor state of 



