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criticised for lack of constitution and breeding capacity. He de- 

 veloped the Duchess, Oxford, Waterloo, Cambridge Rose, Wild 

 Eyes, Foggathorpe, and other tribes. Bates died a bachelor, and 

 with his death in 1850 came the dispersal of his herd of 68 

 animals at an average price of about ^335 per head. 



The Booth family became prominent in Shorthorn history 

 with the establishment of a herd by Thomas Booth, at Killerby 

 in north Yorkshire, -prior to 1790. His herd was established with 

 good Teeswater cattle and animals purchased from the Colhng 



Fig. 67. One comer of the stable at Killerby, the home of Thomas Booth 

 in Yorkshire. Photograph by the author 



brothers. He also owned an estate named " Warlaby," on which 

 he lived during the latter years of his life. Thomas had two sons, 

 John and Richard, who took up the work where the father left 

 off John lived at Killerby and died in 1857, aged seventy years, 

 while Richard lived at Studley adjoining Killerby, and later at 

 Warlaby, where he died in 1864, aged seventy-six. These two 

 men had a very great influence on Shorthorn history, and really 

 developed the breed along lines adopted by the Colling brothers. 

 The herd of John Booth was sold at auction in 1852, while that of 

 Richard was inherited by his nephew, Thomas C. Booth, who died 



