160 Life and Times of " The Druid" 



more tremendous rallier of a slug never 

 existed, and his riding of Mundig for 

 the Derby of 1835 was one of his best 

 efforts. Latterly he was exceedingly weak, 

 and in his last race for the St. Leger he 

 shouted out to Sam Day on Tom Tulloch 

 that it was ' None of the Pigburn family but 

 Sir Tatton that was a-coming.' Finally, he 

 just escaped the rush of Frank Butler on I ago, 

 which, had the race been two hundred yards 

 farther, might have been fatal, not from any 

 fault of Sir Tatton, but from his rider's weak- 

 ness. A son and a daughter survive Bill 

 Scott, his wife having been dead for some 

 years. Long will he be remembered in 

 Yorkshire as ' Glorious Bill,' and those who 

 witnessed with regret his eccentric Mytton- 

 like aberrations will, now that life's fitful fever 

 is over, testify to the kind and manly feelings 

 which never deserted him to his last hour. 

 His mortal remains were consigned to their 

 last resting-place in the churchyard of Meaux 

 Abbey, near Beverley, but illness prevented 

 his brother John, who had been unintermit- 

 ting in his kindness during poor Bill's illness, 

 from attending the funeral. On the same 



