Major Benjamin "Bertie" Herbert Piercy

Benjamin Piercy Herbert (Bertie)

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Initially, he started his military career to achieve the rank of Major in the army, and then abandon it and come to live in Sardinia (where everyone knew him as Major Piercy). He decided to redeem the property by the executors of his father and Padrumannu Baddesalighes where he improved by introducing the Sardinian horse thoroughbred stallions English (many of his mares were covered by the famous stallion Politcullis, in Sardinia led by Lord Thomas Brassey Alnutt, which he owned in Sardinia many mines).

Anything but foreign to the world of horses was his wife (pictured with his son Gerald) Mildrida Soowry Cookson descendant of a family well known in England for their important breeding thoroughbred race horses.

In the picture the first home of Piercy, adiecente Macon railway station, which became successively is the Station Hotel.

Birth registration: Wrexham Oct-Dec 1870 11b 294

Marriage registration: St George's, Hanover Square, Jul-Sep 1909 1a 1103

Death registration: Isle of Wight Oct-Dec 1941 2b 1250