Stallion
Colour: Bay/ dark brown
Breed: Thoroughbred
Type: Hunter stallion
Foaled: 1887
Height: 16 hands

Sire: Hampton
Dam: Belle of Bury

BELIVLLE GSB (Vol.16 p.40) a bay colt. Foaled 1887 and bred by Lord Ellesmere. He stood at stud and was siring, “winning hunters” in 1899.
He was exhibited at the 1898 London Show of The Hunters’ Improvement Society by Thomas Kinsman Bickell, St. John’s Stud Farm, Lamerton, Tavistock, Devon and won Second Reserve for a Premium.
In 1900, described as “dark brown,” he won a Premium for £150 at the London Show of The Hunters’ Improvement Society. He was exhibited by William Parkin Moore, Whitehall, Mealsgate, Cumberland for the District Cumberland, Durham, Northumberland and Westmoreland. Recorded as having, ‘prize winning produce,’ in 1906, 1907. 1908 and 1909, Belville appears in the, List of Premium and Registered Stallions 1898-1913, recognised under the Horse-breeding schemes of the Royal Commission on Horse-breeding, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Royal Agricultural Society of England and The Hunters’ Improvement and National Light Horse Breeding Society.  

Belville was the sire of the Grey Gelding, whose dam was Milkmaid, and thought to be Silver Bell.

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