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The late George Turner. 
Little Known,' taking, we mean, the succession of sires, is one of 
peculiar splendour. ' Napoleon ' (259), a mediate sire, distin- 
guished himself at the 'Royal' and Bath and West of England 
Shows ; ' Duke of Devonshire ' (35), ' Napoleon's ' sire, was 
a ' Royal ' first winner ; so was his sire, ' Baronet ' (6), and 
* Baronet's ' sire, ' Quartly's Prince of Wales ' (105) ; ' Prince 
of Wales's' sire, 'Prince Albert' (102), was a winner at 
Barnstaple ; and * Prince Albert's ' sire, * Hundred Guinea ' 
(56), won the 'Royal' first prize in the Aged Class at Bristol. 
Our Devon readers know very well that 'Hundred Guinea' 
was a son of the prize-winning 'Sillifant' (120), and that his 
blood on both sides was derived from the patriarchal ' Forester ' 
(46), whose potent and favourable influence upon the Devon 
race is so notorious among the initiated in Devon history as to 
make the name of ' Forester ' one of the most familiar of their 
household words. ' Albert Victor ' creditably followed the lead 
of his ancestors, winning at the ' Royal ' Show first prizes at 
Plymouth and Leicester, on the former occasion as a calf, in 
the latter Exhibition as an aged bull. He was also the winner 
of a first prize at Falmouth (Bath and West of England) in 
1868. 
" Mr. Turner's present herd may be divided into three leading 
general sections, of which his * Lady ' tribe is one ; the second 
comprises the ' May Dew ' family and others ; and the third is 
composed of ' Duchesses,' eight or ten in number. Besides these, 
he has three recently purchased at the sale of Mr. John Quartly's 
Devons Mr. Philip Halse, of Molland, bred ' Duchess 1st,' 
the first-prize yearling at the Canterbury Royal, and now a fine 
true-framed old cow of twelve years. The rest of the ' Duchess ' 
family Mr. Turner himself bred. * Duchess 2nd,' a daughter 
of the old cow, was by Mr. James Quartly's ' King of the 
Bretons' (659), the son of ' Napoleon ' (259) mentioned above, 
and inheritor, therefore, of the same grand paternal ancestry 
claimed by ' The Little Known.' It is worth notice that the 
sire, as well as the dam of ' Duchess 2nd,' was a first-prize 
winner at Canterbury ; and ' Duchess 2nd ' is herself in every 
way worthy of her parentage." Breeders of Devon Cattle will 
probably thank the editor of the ' Journal ' for permitting this 
reference to the history of Mr. Turner's herd, from which many 
of their own best strains have sprung. 
There is little more to say. Mr. Turner, as his letter quoted 
above, written in his last year, abundantly proves, retained his 
warm interest in agriculture to the last. I have before me 
a memorandum, in his own hand, of a journey made in 1877, 
to his friend Sir Thomas Boughey, of Newport, Shropshire, in 
which the home farm there is described as the cleanest and best 
