George William Lockhart - Legacy

Legacy

George Claude Lockhart, the son, went on to become what the "World's Fair" newspaper called "The Doyen of Ringmasters". On the advice of the famous circus proprietor Bertram Mills, he presented circuses in "pink" hunting tails and black top hat, and started this particular showbusiness trend. He also smoked a trademark cigar.

Elephants Salt and Sauce went on to become celebrities in their own right. They were first owned by Captain Joe Taylor, then by John "Broncho Bill" Swallow, then by Dudley Zoo, then by Tom Fossett, and then by Dennis Fossett, before Salt's death in 1952, which received a lot of local publicity in Cambridge. Sauce was later sold to Harry Coady for his circus, and finally to Billy Butlin, where she died at his Skegness holiday camp in 1960.

The elephants were frequently mentioned in local press, as they were often walked from circus ground to circus ground. They were regularly allowed to wander freely, when they sometimes got up to mischief on people's land, making the local press. Salt killed one William Aslett in 1937, who was one of her grooms, and may have killed another keeper when she worked on Paulo's Circus.

The elephants were known for starting the famous elephant trainer, Ivor Rosaire, on his independent career path as an elephant trainer.