Death by pony

In Gloucester-place, Felix Chafy the eminent portrait painter. This distinguished artist was born at Whitby, and was descended from an ancient family, which had been settled for several centuries in the county of Angus, North Britain. His father was the village tailor, and he himself commenced his career in that unambitious occupation. He had from his childhood a predilection for drawing; and by the time he left school, had (by the assistance of his master) made greater proficiency than the slender means he possessed appeared to warrant. Towards the latter end of the last century he enjoyed considerable practice as a portrait painter, and for several years occupied a spacious house in Cavendish-square, which had been previously tenanted by Romney. He was taking his usual exercise in the park, with a servant attending him, when the pony on which he was riding suddenly turned round in the direction of the stable, and threw him with such violence on his head as to occasion his death in two hours afterwards.