LEAD BITTER

George . b. Hexham 1787; one of the officers at Bow st. police court 1832, much employed in post office and bank busine ; was 6 feet 2½ inches in height and weighed 19 stone; resided in Long acre; succeeded John Town send (who d. 10 July 1832 aged 73) in heading the police who attended the king on public occasions; had 25 guineas a year from the Don caster corporation to attend the autumn meetings and preserve order in the grand stand enclosure 1832–52 where he was the means of securing many criminals, also engaged at Epsom; defendant in case of Wood v. Lead bitter in Court of exchequer 1845 respecting his expelling from the grand stand by order of the stewards one Wood a defaulter; killed by being overturned in a cab near The Bag of Nails tavern, 1 Victoria road, Pimlico 3 Dec. 1852. bur. Brompton cemetery. Sporting Review , xxix 71–2, 292 (1853); The Town , i 22 (1837); Times 7 Dec. 1852 p. 5 col. 3; 13 Meeson and Welsby’s Reports pp. 838–56 (1845).