The late Mr. Daley. 6 1 



"and, therefore, Mr. Chairman" (as he observed at 

 the Shakspeare dinner), " I have to thank Shakspeare 

 for making me a Lord Mayor." This pleasantry told 

 all the better, because the Mayor of Carlisle would 

 not attend that dinner, and had declared officially that 

 Shakspeare was no doubt a talented but an overrated 

 man, and might have turned his talents to better 

 account. Hence curiously enough the Earl and the 

 Mayor of Carlisle were in the front and the rear of 

 the movement on the Tercentenary day. The one 

 presided at the Stratford-on-Avon banquet, and told 

 with noble emphasis of that great Quadrilateral, in 

 which "Warwickshire Will" had entrenched himself 

 against the assaults of envious Time ; the other, 

 although stupendous efforts, both clerical and lay, 

 were made to convert him, hardened his heart and 

 spake as above. 



Mr. Daley was Clerk of the Course for nearly twenty 

 years, and he left some QO/. to their credit in the bank 

 when he died. No one could look more anxious till 

 he was quite sure that there would be a race for " The 

 Queen's Guineas." He confided to us as the cause of 

 this passing cloud that the country people held a 

 belief that if that race was walked over for, it was all 

 his doing, and that he made much booty by such 

 procedure. He was popular with all classes, always 

 ready to help a good cause with his purse and his 

 acting, and never said an unkind word of. any one. A 

 handsome testimonial was presented to him a few 

 years before his death, which was very sudden at last ; 

 and now that he and poor John Sowerby (his C.C. 

 predecessor) have gone, any amateur casual who 

 wanders into Carlisle, and wants to hear the latest 

 thing out in sporting, does not know where to bend 

 his steps. 



Both were alive in '64, and thirty-one horses had 

 come to the meeting, which was opened by Woodbine 

 running away twice round the course, with young Job 



