SHORTHORN HERDS OF ENGLAND. UJ 



paid for Comet 155, at Ketton, in 1810, and after four years service 

 at Scaleby Castle, he was offered at the sale in Sept. 1875, with a 

 reserve of l,000gs. upon him, and at that figure claimed by Mr. T. 

 Holford. Mr. Fawcett added various fresh families to the original 

 Scaleby stock, at different periods. Southwick, Brawith, and 

 Didmarton, furnishing some of the earlier innovations, but the most 

 fashionable female additions were Kirklevington Duchess 5th, bought 

 from Mr. E. Pavm Davies, and three heifers, a daughter, and two 

 grand-daughters of Mr. Slye's Lady Bates 3rd, bred at Havering 

 Pai-k. Sales were held in 1868-70-73, and after the death of Mr. 

 Fawcett, the portion of the herd sold in 1875, realized an average of 

 just over one hundred guineas, for fifty six head. 



Since then, the herd has been bred solely from the tribes then at 

 Scaleby Castle, by the present owners, Mrs. and Capt. M. Fawcett, 

 to which have been used two sons, and a grandson of Kirklevington 

 Duchess 5th, sold privately to Sir Curtis Lampson for l,100gs, being 

 the highest priced Kirklevington ever sold in England, and at present 

 in service, is Thorndale Duke 48821, bred by Mr. A. H. Lloyd, out 

 of that fine cow Thorndale Rose 14th, he being assisted by a home 

 bred Lady Bates bull. Without doubt, the finest cow now at Scaleby, 

 is Lady York and Thorndale Bates 2nd, a magnificent white daughter 

 of 8th Duke of York, and Lady Tregunter Bates. All the produce 

 from this cow have been sold, three daughters leaving their parental 

 home during the past year, one for the States, and two for Mr. T. 

 A. Titley's rising herd in Lincolnshire. There is also an excellent 

 red heifer from Lady Clarence Bates, half-sister to Lady Tregunter 

 Bates. Another branch of the Barrington family, are the Lallys, 

 originally from Winterfold, which include Duchess Lally 2nd, a 

 lengthy, good backed daughter of the original purchase. Kirklevington 

 Duchess 30th, is the solitary specimen of the Kirklevingtons, and 

 being the produce of Kirklevington Duchess llth, by her own son, 

 is naturally too neat, and fine of bone. The Peach Blossoms, 

 purchased at Mr. Bell's, along with the Duke bull, have two useful 

 cows in the Fifteenth, and Sixteenth, mother, and daughter. The 

 Gwynnes have descendants of Polly Gwynne 2nd, and Amy Gwynne, 



