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Re: Morrow Single Barrel
Geo. Newbern #608456 12/27/21 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Geo. Newbern
I once had a well aerated Boss gun built in 1861 as a pinfire and converted to centerfire. I was built for a clergyman who happened to be a younger son of some high ranking muckity-muck who owned Harewood House and was Earl of Harewood. Google Harewood House; it makes Downton Abbey look like a hovel. The clergyman was a high ranking official at Ripon cathedral. We once had a thread on that gun here where one of our foremost weapons experts called my gun a tomato stake...Geo

The Earl of Harewood was one of the governors of the school I went to in nearby Knaresborough in the 1960s and gave the prizes out on speech day each year. A very friendly chap who loved to talk shooting and ferreting with eager schoolboys. As we say here, no side to him at all.

As our language becomes impoverished,,our thinking shrinks to fit.
Re: Morrow Single Barrel
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Thanks for the information, Mr. Thruxton. The gentleman who ordered my Boss in 1861 was IIRC the sixth child of the fourth Earl. I don't know what "no side to him at all" means, but I think the Earl you refer to was the sixth Earl and first cousin of QE2. He was the old gentlemen with the pointy beard in Prince William's wedding picture which we saw over here. The family fortune, I understand was made in the three corner trade. When I bought the old Boss, I got a copy of the purchase order from Boss, and followed the Lascelles surname in order to discover what I know of the owner's distinguished family...Geo
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The phrase is a Yorkshire/Lancashire one which roughly means no airs and graces which may also mean "What you see is what you get". I drive past the Harewood estate most weeks to get to my rough shooting and its one of the few left which is still relatively intact with its farms and land geared to shooting.

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