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Attorney, and he and his young wife took up 

 their abode in Doncaster in 1847. It would 

 have been impossible to select a position or 

 circumstances better calculated to foment the 

 taste for horse-racing and country life which 

 must undoubtedly have been innate in " The 

 Druid's" breast. Doncaster, with its rich tra- 

 ditions as a sporting centre ; with its Turf 

 Tavern and adjoining paddocks, then presided 

 over by Mr. Bowe, who had formerly been 

 employed by Lord George Bentinck as the 

 nominator of many of his racehorses ; with 

 its annual race meeting ; with its historical 

 Town Moor ; and finally, with the attraction 

 presented by it as the residence of a sporting 

 writer of no ordinary capacity, in the person 

 of Mr. James White, who contributed to the 

 Doncaster Gazette under the name of " Mar- 

 tingale," was pretty certain to inoculate the 

 young articled clerk with that abounding 

 love for field sports which afterwards bore 

 such rich fruit. Doncaster had, in addition, 

 been the home, shortly before that time, 

 of Mr. J. F. Herring, the celebrated horse 

 painter, who came there an unknown stranger 

 from London, in 18 14. Fortunately he had 



