AND TIMES OF JOHN OSBORNE 9 



from Grimshaw's grave, and admiration is excited by 

 an imposing monument of white marble. Figures of 

 three cherubs are grouped around the central, almost 

 hfe-size, statue, symbolic of " The Angel of Mercy." 

 On the stones grouped in rockery fashion are chiselled — 



THOMAS DAWSON, 



DIED ISth FEBRUARY, 18S0. 



GEORGE L. DAWSON, 



BORN OCTOBER 9, 1837, 

 DIED JUNE 17, 1895. 



GRANT DAWSON, 



DIED 12th NOVEMBER, 1S7S, 

 AGED 78. 



This simple, unaffected record acts like a tahsman 

 in unlocking the cells of memory. Visions of the past, 

 the mighty horses trained by Tom Dawson, on the 

 adjacent Moor, crowd upon the mind. For fifty years 

 was " Old Tom " associated with Middleham, his 

 record as a trainer only being eclipsed by John Scott's, 

 though not surpassed by the deeds of the Crofts, the 

 Foberts, the Osbornes, or any of the trainers who 

 reigned here since the present centur}^ was young. 

 Spectres of Ellington, Blue Bonnet, both Derby 

 winners; of Our Nell, an Oaks victress; and of 

 Pretender, involuntarily flit in procession before the 

 mental eye as one gazes on the cold marble that covers 

 all that was mortal of the great master; then the sad 

 reflection that the skilled hand which brought these 

 freux chevaliers to the field of strife is now but 

 mere dust. Sic transit gloria mundil 



