196 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 
To the service of Albion, Halnaby produced Young Albion, 
the first of the Killerby bulls to be leased to another breeder. So 
successful was the first venture that it was ultimately adopted as 
the permanent herd policy. As a result, the BootH bulls of un- 
known ability were given ample opportunity in the herds of 
other men, and those that proved worthy could be recalled to 
Killerby or Warlaby for further use. 
The demands for agricultural products during the Napoleonic 
Wars brought sufficient prosperity to the Bootu family to enable 
the elder son, RicHArb, to undertake a herd of his own at StTup- 
LEY farm, some fifteen miles south of Killerby. Here were taken 
a few of the choicest animals from the paternal herd, which with 
the well chosen purchases of RICHARD on Darlington market soon 
brought about new standards of achievement in the Boots ranks. 
In 1819, upon the marriage of the second son, JoHN, THOMAS 
BootH turned over old Killerby to filial management, and re- 
moved to his other estate of Warlaby located in the valley of the 
Wiske, where he remained until his retirement from Shorthorn 
activity about 1835. 
Like his cattle) Taomas Bootn bred on. While his achieve- 
ments are classic, his sons, RICHARD and JouN, carried forward 
his work to even higher levels. So that when, after fifty years of 
intimate fellowship with the breed he loved, he passed the torch 
of progress into younger hands, he knew that his lifelong service 
was not terminating. His final sleep in 1836 found his face 
turned to the future, expectantly forecasting the triumphs of his 
Fairholmes, Annas, Bracelets and Strawberries, loved intimates 
of the half century gone by. 
