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Defiance (416), Prince Dangerous (362), Lot (364), Lottery 2d 

 (408), Young Favorite (413), Wonder (420), Fitzfavorite (441), 

 Hamlet (512), Original ist (455), Young Waxy (451), Purslow 

 (446), and Conqueror (412). There is scarcely a line of Hereford 

 breeding to-day that is not traceable to the Hewer stock. 



Thomas Jeffries of The Grove, Pembridge, and other estates, 

 was born in 1796 and died in 1843. He was a son of Thomas 

 Jeffries and came from a family of well-known Hereford breeders. 

 He first began with the Hereford stock developed by the family, 

 but later infused the blood of cattle bred by John Hewer, hiring 

 from him Sovereign, Lottery, Byron, and Fitzfavorite. This 

 blending of blood brought about remarkable success, and Jeffries 

 produced numerous famous animals. Cotmore (376), by Sovereign, 

 which he bred, has been classed as one of the finest Hereford 

 bulls of history. 



Foundation Heref ords of importance are the following : Silver 

 Cow of Richard Tomkins ; Pigeon and Mottle of Benjamin Tom- 

 kins the Elder; Wellington (4), Silver Bull (41), Slit Teat Cow, 

 Storrell, Old Rose, and Old Lovely of Benjamin Tomkins the 

 Younger ; Toby Pigeon, by Toby (5), of John Price ; Red Rose, 

 by Chance (348), of John Hewer. These were really foundation 

 stock in the early establishment of the breed. Among other very 

 important Hereford males that had a great influence on the 

 breed in England in the last century may be mentioned Sovereign 

 (404), Old Wellington (507), Old Silver (540), Waxy (403), 

 Cotmore (376), Lottery (410), Chance (348), Sir David (349), 

 Walford (871), Sir Benjamin (1387), Sir Thomas (2228), Horace 

 (3877), Winter De Cote (4253), and Lord Wilton (4740). It is 

 said of Sovereign (404) that in his day he was acknowledged to 

 be "the best bull ever bred in the county of Hereford, and the 

 sire and grandsire of more prize cattle at Smithfield and else- 

 where than any other bull in the kingdom." These bulls are insep- 

 arably associated with the development of the breed in England. 



The introduction of the Hereford to America first occurred, so 

 far as records show, in 18 17, when Henry Clay imported a young 

 bull, a cow, and a heifer to his home at Lexington, Kentucky. 

 About 1825 Admiral Coffin of the British Navy sent the bull 

 Sir Isaac and a cow as a gift to the Massachusetts Society for 



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