Identifier: folkloreofeastyo00nich (find matches)
Title: Folk lore of East Yorkshire
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Nicholson, John
Subjects: Folklore -- England Yorkshire Yorkshire (England) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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T has been tiuly said, that, in Yorkshire, everyother man you meet is a character; and thisforce of character, which often shews itself byits eccentricity, has produced many men ofsterling worth, whose worthiness is knownand acknowledged far beyond the confines oftheir own county. SIR TATTON SYKES. No account of the worthies of East Yorkshire wouldbe complete, that did not, among many others, includethe late Sir Tatton Sykes, of Sledmere. This broad-acred shire has produced many good men and true, but nonewhose name will linger with more enduring fame than thatof the grand old master of Sledmere, who died on the 21st ofMarch, 1863, in his 92nd year. For more than half a centuiy there was no face or figuremore familiar to those who frequented the great northernrace meetings, than that of Sir Tatton Sykes, who wasregarded by Tykes of high and low degree with feelings
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MONUMENT TO THE LATE SIR TATTON SYKES. (FROM A PHOTOGEAPH BY M. BOAK, DEITFIEU)). FOLK LORE OF EAST YORKSHIRE. 109 of respect and veneration as deep as those whicli a tribe ofArabs enteitains for its patriarchal Sheikh. To the end of his days Sir Tatton was a man of greathardihood, of the most frugal tastes, and the most simplehabits. It was his custom all his life to be up with the larkin the summer, and long before the sun in winter. Hisfavourite breakfast was an apple tart and a hearty draughtof new milk, and after he had partaken of that humble meal,he has often been known to relieve a stone breaker at his workby the roadside, and keep himself warm by breaking stones,until the man who has been sent to the Manor-house to beserved with a pint of home-brewed, and a crust of bread,returned. No one, not even the poorest beggar, was everknown to leave that hospitable roof without at least asubstantial crust and a pint of the generous malt. In physique, Sir Tatton was a splendid specimen

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