Alexander Cumberford

On Saturday, 25 May 1895, the well-known gentleman jockey Mr Alexander Cumberford was thrown whilst schooling a four-year-old horse at Sealand Shooting Range, Chester.

Medical assistance was quickly at hand, but the jockey - who had landed on his head - never regained consciousness. He was conveyed by cab to his home, Greenfield, in Hoole, Cheshire, where he died at 11.30 on Sunday evening.

On Tuesday evening, his body was taken across to Ireland, the interment taking place at Three-Mile-Water, Wicklow, on Wednesday. His brother, James, was the chief mourner.

Mr Cumberford, aged 51, owner of Woodcock and other steeplechasers, made his last appearance on a racecourse at the Tanatside Hunt Meeting, held at Llanymynech, on Tuesday, April 30, when he had fallen on Colonel Sandbach's Sorcerer in the Maiden Steeplechase won by Beauty.

Alexander Cumberford was a corn broker in Liverpool.