3-034-709 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Mr. Blenkiron, of Middle Park, 1871. English racehorse breeder, owner of the Middle Park stud in Kent. 'Death has been terribly busy of late among Turf men of all grades...Few were better known or more respected than Mr. William Blenkiron, and it is only four months since we saw him, at his last great sale, cheery as ever, though his face bore unmistakable traces of illness, extending open hospitality to all who had the slightest claim to it, and to very many who had none at all...Still, though he was present at both the sales of this year, he had been seriously ill last winter, when his constitution began to break up, and there can be little doubt that all the cares and anxieties necessarily attending such a stud as that at Middle Park aggravated the heart disease from which he suffered. After the second sale, which took place in July, he gradually became worse, and died on Monday, Sept. 25, in his sixty-fourth year. Mr. Blenkiron was born in Yorkshire, and, abandoning farming, for which he was originally intended, came to London and commenced a large manufacturing business, which is still carried on by his eldest son'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.