E P Thompson noted that the mother of William Hulton, the Magistrate who sent the Yeomanry in at Peterloo on 16th August 1819 owned a horse named ‘Church and King’. The name summarises the key principles of the Tory Party, although whether those in charge of the Party in 2025 know that is another matter.
In a perhaps surprisingly sneer free obituary of the left wing activist, journalist and author Richard Gott (1938-2025) one paragraph notes that Gott’s mother Mary joined CND and attempted to register a horse in the name of ‘Ban the Bomb’. The Jockey Club however rejected the registration…
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