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of breeders from whose herds the blood of early winners was 
derived, the names of E. Price (of Ryall), John Price (Upton-on- 
Severn), Perry, Meire, Gough, the Tomkins family (of course), 
Sir Francis Lawley and the Rev. J. R. Smythies. Up to the 
close of the period covered by the foregoing notes, so far as I 
can judge from scraps of oral and documentary evidence picked 
up within the last five-and-twenty years, the younger Herefords, 
I infer, were not generally so forward in growth and in the 
furnishing of the frame as are those of the present time. Less 
attention was paid then than now to the capabilities of young 
stock. Lord Berwick, Mr. Pitt, and some other distinguished 
breeders, however, were successful exhibitors in the younger 
classes. 
In the year 1849, ten years after the inaugural Show at 
Oxford, the Meeting was held at Norwich, where " Sir David," 
bred by Mr. David Williams, of Newton, Brecon, and exhibited 
by Mr. Edward Price, then at Court House, Pembridge, was 
the best aged bull. He had won his First Pi'ize as a yearling at 
the Newcastle Meeting in 184-6, and now stood invincible at 
maturity. The appearance of "Sir David" upon the scene 
marks an epoch in Hereford history, for the bull proved not 
only a winner at the Shows, but also one of the most impressive 
sires ever known, and from his day to the present time his 
descendants have been found in the foi'emost ranks of the 
Hereford breed. His influence was a new impetus to Hereford 
progress, and, although now distributed by time and inter- 
changes of blood, is still traceable wherever the best Herefords 
are found. 
At Windsor, in 1851, another extraordinary bull came to the 
front as first winner — Lord Berwick's " Walford," bred by Mr. 
Thomas Longmore. Lord Berwick was also on that occasion 
the exhibitor of the First Prize cow (the spotted-faced " Duchess 
of Norfolk"), the First and Second Prize two-year-old heifers, 
and the Third Prize yearling heifer, all the females being bred 
by himself Mr. Edward Price, Mr. Fowler Boyd Price, Mr. 
Sylvanus Archibald, Mr. Monkhouse, of the Stowe, Mr. Philip 
Turner, Mr. Walter Maybery, and the Rev. J. R. Smythies were 
the other winning exhibitors, all being themselves the breeders of 
the animals which they exhibited, excepting Mr. Smythies, whose 
Second Prize cow was bred by Mr. Samuel Aston, and Mr. F. B. 
Price, whose First Prize yearling bull was bred by Mr. Jones, 
ef Lower- Breinpton, and First Prize yearling heifer by Mr. 
Carpenter, of Eardisland. The Herefords numbered eleven 
entries of bulls exceeding three years old, eight of bulls from 
one to three years, six of cows, seven of two-year-old heifers^ 
