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Country Life Trending: April 5, 2021 Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match, 1784–86, 59in by 41in, by Johan Zoffany (1733–1810), Tate Collection. Credit: Alamy Lt Gen Sir Simon Mayall on Colonel Mordaunt’s Cock Match by Johan Zoffany ‘Cockfighting was considered “disreputable” by the time of this picture, as were some of the identifiable characters in it. For me, the vibrant tableau summons up the exotic allure of India, those intoxicated generations of Britons, as they developed from the rakes of the East India Company into the stern, patrician administrators of the high British Raj and on to the modern travellers of today. ‘Between them, my grandmother, a doctor, and my grandfather, a port engineer, spent nearly half a century of their professional lives in India. My mother was born there. Brought up in Aden, I, too, went east to serve, yet another pale Anglo-Saxon attracted by the same glare, glamour, adventure and opportunity that had drawn Col

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