FAMOUS RIDE RE-ENACTED.
GILPIN COMES TO LIFE. John Gilpin’s famous ride was reenacted in celebration of the bi-cen-tenary of the poet, William Cowper, at Olney, Buckinghamshire. Mrs Gilpin, her sister ( and family drove up to the Bell Inn m an ancient coach, and watched from the windows G.ilpin career past on horseback, hatless, wigless, and with his coat tails flying. Gilpin—the part bein" played by Mr S. L. Trevor, captain of the Buckinghamshire cricket eleven —secured a fresh wig at Calenders, now the Sun Inn, and returned at a furious gallop, stirrupless, pursued by a post boy and others on horseback. including Prince Charlerrinbol, Crown Prince of Siam, who is a student at Oxford University. The final reunion of the family on the balcony of the Bell Inn was preceded bv a pageant of .episodes in Cowper’s life and incidents in his poems.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LI, Issue 197, 22 July 1931, Page 7
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