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 338 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.vm. Armies, 1021. tation of being plainer in dress, speech, and deportment. They are not afraid to soil their hands or clothing. (Witness the great number of factories.) Manchester takes Liverpool cotton, &c., works the raw material into fabrics, and reaps a richer harvest of profit. It is perhaps a case of office versus factory. W. JAGGARD, CAPT. COWPER : PRONUNCIATION OF NAME (12 S. viii. 110, 179, 237, 299). When Cowper's i Court, Cornhill, was spoken of to me in the nineteenth century, it was always as Cooper's. Earl Cowper was likewise Cooper. ST. SWITHIN. Your correspondent's example at the last reference seems to tell against him. Harben ('Dictionary of London ') gives, s. v. Cowper's Court : " First mention : Cooper's Court (Boyle, 1799)" and adds, "So called from Sir Wm. Cooper . . . temp. Jas. I." ! I find a somewhat earlier mention of " Cooper's Court " in Bowles's ' New London Guide,' 1786. Lockie, 1810, and Elmes, 1831, have "Cowper's Court." It would appear in this case, therefore, that, at any rate in his younger days, the pronunciation was " after Stephenson's fashion." RAYMOND LEE. 66, Hereford Road, W.2. LIONS IN THE TOWER (11 S. vii. 150, 210, 272, 316, 357, 457). At the second reference Sir Harry Poland quoted Haydn's ' Dic- tionary of Dates ' as stating that " a lion j named Pompey died in the Tower of London j in 1760, after seventy years' confinement." According to W. Toone's ' Chronological Historian' (3rd ed.), ii. 100, on November) 10, 1758, "the oldest lion in the Tower died, aged sixty-eight. It was presented to King James II. by one of the States of Barbary." What is the average age of a lion ? JOHN B; WAINEWRIGHT. CREAM-COLOURED HORSES (US. xi. 361,, 441). Under date May 30, 1761, W. Toone in j his ' Chronological Historian ' (3rd ed.), ii. 132, writes : A set of fine cream-coloured horses, and several other coach and saddle horses from Hanover, were landed at Tower- wharf for his Majesty's service. Is the breed now extinct ? At the latter reference the last of those still remaining in Hanover is said to have died about 1905, aged about 28. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 0, Grand Avenue, Hove, Sussex. LlDDELL AND SCOTT'S GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON (12 S. viii. 119, 158). MR. J. C. HUDSON in the concluding paragraph, ante p. 158, asks for dates of the various editions of Liddell and Scott's ' Lexicon,' and the fol- lowing may be of some use. The first edition was published in 1843 and was stated to be " based on the German work of Francis Passow " ; it contained pp. xviii, 1586, and was 4to. The second edition was published as a sm. 4to., 1845, third edition 1849, and the fourth, 4to., 1855, revised throughout, and with the name of Passow omitted from the title page because the lexicon " was now from so many and various sources, that we could no longer fairly place any one name in that position." The fifth edition was 1861, 4to., very much augmented and improved ; sixth edition, 4to., 1869, was revised throughout, as was the seventh edition, 4to., 1883. The eighth edition, and last, 4to., was revised in 1897 and reprinted in 1910, and was corrected and added to as far as could be done without altering the pagination. Abridgments were issued in 1843, fifth edition in 1856, and ninth in 1861, and others adapted for schools are numerous. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. PETER TILL-EMANS, ARTIST, 1684-1734(12 S. viii. 293). I know the engraving referred to, for I happen to have had some hand in getting it reproduced in The Field of October 7, 1911. It represents the Duke of Kingston (1725), gun in hand, walking up to eleven pointers all standing or setting to game a most unwonted sight ! Behind him is a gamekeeper with a second gun, while the Duke's horse and that of the keeper are in charge of a groom in the rear. Sir Walter Gilbey, in his ' Animal Painters of England ' (vol. ii., p. 207), has a chapter on this artist, whose name inadvertently he spells without the final " s." He refers to the picture as that of the Duke of Kingston on horseback [sic] with keepers and eleven young pointers all standing to game ; a view of Thoresby Hall, Lincolnshire, forming the remote background. He is mistaken, I think, in his identifica- tion of the Duke, who is surely on foot, the central figure of the group. As an example of Tillemans'swork he gives an engraving of a race meeting at Newmarket ; but in this the figures are so numerous and on so small a scale that I think the artist' s skill as an animal painter would have been better represented by the Duke of Kingston's pointers. J. E. HARTING.