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cotton ‘warehouseman’ and
had already achieved
‘practically world-wide fame’
for ‘some marvellous feats on
a bicycle’. He was also a
cross-country runner and
distance walker. A man of
‘exceptional physique and
power’ according to the press,
‘he made one of the finest
distance riders English
cycling ever produced’. He
broke a number of records
and in 1891 came second