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NOTED ENGLISH BREEDER PASSES AWAY TTnder date of May 4 a dispatch from London to the New York Sun said saidSir Sir Tatton Sykes one of the most prominent characters in English country life the best known breeder of race horses of the century many of whom were noted winners but who rarely raced horses himself died today He was a noted char ¬ acter He was eightyseven years of age and the idol of the Yorkshire racing tykes His chief hob ¬ bles in life were the turf and strangely enough church building buildingSir Sir Tatton is said to have missed only one Don caster race meeting in eighty years and for forty years he lodged during his visits with a cowkeeptr in Sheffield lane He was generous and popular but was known to his friends as a little eccentric It is known that he restored twenty or thirty old church edifices and spent on them some 7500000 In re ¬ gard to his eccentricities he often wore half a dozen coats which he shed singly as he got too warm and dropped thorn by the roadside He caused a sensation some nine years ago 1 3 making a charge of forgery against Lady Sykes The lat ters eccentricities also caused much comment in New York and other places She was arrested sev ¬ eral times in London for being so much under the inlluence of liquor as to be in the language of the bobby incapable She was a brilliant woman and a writer of considerable force forceThe The heir of Sir Tatton Sykes is his sou Lieut Col Mark Sykes
