Its Makers, Past and Present 



for "great coolness and judgment and honesty of purpose." 

 Having a " herculean frame," his friends remarked with 

 equal surprise and regret that, at a comparatively early 

 age, his physical powers were rapidly failing, so much so 

 that at the 1851 Ascot Meeting the Clerk's duties were 

 performed by Mr. Henry Hibburd. His existing disease 



EDWARD HIBBURD 



JAMES MANNING 



was further aggravated by nervous shock, consequent on 

 being knocked down by a racehorse at the Manchester 

 Meeting in the autumn of 1850. He succumbed rather 

 unexpectedly on September 2nd, 1851, aged fifty-one years. 

 Unfortunately there is no existing likeness of Mr. Hib- 

 burd, as he never had his portrait painted. 



His son, Edward Hibburd, then took over the duties 

 that his father had performed. Born in 1831, he first 



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