* TA TTERSA LL'S: 115 



partner shall be spared to merit your approval and to 

 conduct the business as our predecessors have done. 

 As long as I live I shall look back to this day as one 

 of the proudest and m(^st pleasant of my existence.' 



Mr. Tattersall's speech may be supplemented by a 

 few additional facts of an interesting kind : 



The founder of the firm came to London, from some 

 place on the borders of Lancashire and Yorkshire, the 

 name of which has not been given, in the year 1743. 

 He had been, when at home, a wool-comber, but was 

 all his life fond of horses, and it is related that when 

 he arrived in the great Metropolis he became a con- 

 stant attendant at Beevor's horse-repository in St. 

 Martin's Lane. Whether or not he found employ- 

 ment there has not been stated ; but that he took a 

 keen interest in all that went on at that place is cer- 

 tain, and that he, either during his visits to Beevor's 

 or at some previous date, had acquired a good know- 

 ledge of horseflesh is evident from his having been 

 appointed to a position of great trust in the stables of 

 the second and last Duke of Kinoston. As training- 

 groom he remained in the service of that nobleman till 

 the year 1773, in which year the Duke died. 



Whether the celebrated livery-stables were opened 

 at or before this date appears to be somewhat uncer- 

 tain. Mr. John Lawrence, author of ' The Horse,' 

 states that Tattersall's was opened in or about the 

 year 1760 ; but in a paper contributed to the Penny 

 Magazine, vol. xiii., the date is given as 1773. 

 In this article the place is described as one ' where 

 men of honour might congregate, free from the snioll 

 of the stable, and enjoy a view of the most beautiful 



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