The Life of Fred Archer 29 
Cintra House is now the Vine Tree Inn, a pretty old- 
fashioned place standing in the Burgage at Prestbury. A 
great vine grows up it, hence its present name, though " Cintra 
House " is still painted on the side of it. 
In 1858, William Archer won the Grand National on Little 
Charley, and as he was bom on December 2 in that same year 
Charles Edward Archer was appropriately named after Mr. 
Capel's horse. Mr. Capel also owned Anatis, the mare on 
which the late Mr. Tom Pickernell won one of his three vic- 
tories at Aintree. The Capels have lived at Prestbury House 
for many years, and the family is mentioned in some of the 
earliest accounts of Cheltenham Spa. Tom Pickernell, not 
long before his death, read an article by the late Finch Mason 
in " Baily." " It brought back," he said, " many happy times 
to my old mind. For old Capel and Fog Rowlands and the 
rest of the old 'uns were all great friends of mine." An old 
friend of Fred Archer's said that during Mr. Capel's last illness 
he saw him, and he talked much of his and Lindsay Gordon's 
friend, the much loved Thomas Pickernell, and he had Mr. 
Pickemell's photograph by him. 
They are all dead now — Mr, Capel and Tom Pickernell and 
Fog Rowlands, and another admirer of Mr. Pickemell's, Bob 
James, Tom Oliver's old jockey, who spent his last days in the 
beautiful old almshouse at Prestbury, " The Gift of Anne 
Goodrych for the Rehgious Poor." Bob James also treasured 
up a photograph of " Mr. Thomas," and would talk of nothing 
but him and the horses he rode. 
Fog, or Fothergill, Rowlands was the sporting doctor from 
Wales who settled down in Prestbury and trained steeplechase 
horses for his friends, among them being King Edward. His 
son was Cecil Raleigh, of Drury Lane fame, who died in the 
early days of the Great War. Mr. Raleigh had a boundless 
admiration for Fred Archer, and was fond of talking of the old 
Prestbury days. He said that in Prestbury Fothergill Row- 
lands was one day taking some horses, heavily clothed, to trot 
