112 SHORTHORN HKRDS OF ENGLAND. 



Grand Duke. In the following year afc Studley, Primrose, Medora, 

 and Verbena, were purchased, the first named died the next year, 

 but the two latter have descendants in the herd to the presant day. 

 In 1836, Mr. Fawkes in id 3 a contract for three yeai-s, with Mr. 

 Whitaker. to send twenty of his cows, to be selected by Mr. Fawkes, 

 to Norfolk, and he to take the calves at 10 gs. each, bulls, or 

 heifers, at the expiration of a week. The very first calf, Sir 

 Thomas Fairfax 5196, proved a winner both at the Royal, and 

 Yorkshire Meeting and eventually was sold for 500 gs. Sales took 

 place in 1849-53-64, on the last occasion, thirty animals brought 

 .58 15s. 3d., while in 1853, eleven bulls made over ,78 per 

 head. One or two sales have since been held, but neither of these 

 averages have been equalled, and the herd has been quietly bred 

 from four or five families for many years, and Lord Cobbam 20164, 

 of the Gr wynne tribe, bred at Upleathain, was used from 1862 to 

 1868, when Lord Darlington 26633, came from Gaddesby ; in more 

 recent years, Richmond 37340, a Riby bull, cost 700 gs. at the 

 great Aylesby sale, and Baron Winsome 6th 33111, came from 

 Holker the year previous. Sir Andrew 42387, has been hired from 

 Warlaby, and Sir Anthony 50449, half brother to Sir Simeon, and 

 Lord Clarence, out of Mr. Torr's Foreign Beauty, purchased from 

 West Dereham. St. Swithin 43986, a son of Mr. Ackers' Lord 

 Prinknash 34655, purchased at the East Mill Hills sale, has left a 

 nice lot of heifers, and Lord Rector 51639, a massive red bull, bred 

 by Mr. W. Duthie, in Aberdeenshire, descended from the famous 

 old Lenton blood, has been used, and is the sire of a number of 

 good coloured, promising calves. Royal Duchess, is within a month 

 of her eleventh year, and has bred regularly with the exception of 

 1882, the year foot and mouth visited the herd. Lady Ida, and 

 Lady Winifrid, are daughters of the Baron Winsome, which was 

 used to obtain more size in the herd, the latter being our favourite, 

 and a good sort is Lady Ramsay. Mademoiselle Bernhardt, a cow 

 of great size, and substance, is the dam of Barmaid, by Sir Andrew, 

 at present down calving. The oldest cow in the herd is Lady 

 Verena, a light roan of 1873, descended from Mr. Booth's Verbena, 



