William Tribe (Secondus) Born 1802 Died 1886 and the firm of 'Tribe and Company'

William Tribe (Secondus), the eldest son of William the Founder, was born in August (I believe on the 19th of the month) of the year 1802, in or near the borough of Tenterden, in Kent. He was a tall, robust man, of magnificent build and enormous strength, nearly approaching six feet in height, and broad in proportion, and at eighty years of age would have proved the equal of many men in their prime. He married Mary (Ottaway) and had several children. He lived during the great part of his life in or around Tenterden, and was at one time a tollgate keeper, at another a dogwood [scraper] and dogwood merchant, and he also at one time kept a stud of carthorse stallions, among which was the famous Black Prince, in his time the champion horse of Kent. Later on he crossed the Sussex border and settled at Burwash, near Heathfield, Sussex, where he hired Waterloo Farm, Burwash. This he farmed successfully for a number of years, when he again set his face and feet Kent-wards, and hired Cold Bath Farm, Tunbridge Wells, on the edge of the border, but on the Kentish side. Here he laid the foundations of the business which eventually became one of the largest and most successful dairying concerns in the borough of Tunbridge Wells, doing business in Hungershall and Neville Parks, Broadwater Down, and many other of the principle parts of the borough. Here it was, too, that he died, after many years of sucessful business.