Samuel Spode

It was the time, when the British Government encouraged adventurers to emigrate to the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land.

[2] While his brother and his wife remained in Van Diemen's Land, Samuel Spode and his family returned to England in 1826.

When they returned to England, they stayed with his sister Sarah and her husband, the potter Charles James Mason (1791–1856), at their house Heron Cottage in the Staffordshire Potteries.

The cause of death may have been Acquired brain injury, which might have been the result of a carriage accident back in Van Diemen's land in April 1825.

Spode also painted many famous racehorses, including Birdcatcher, Caractacus and Voltager, winner of both: the Derby and St Leger in 1850.

However, he also worked as a horse trainer at the Curragh Racecourse for some time, as evidenced by a painting by Henry Samuel Alken Jnr (1810–1894), titled and dated S. Spode Training Eastern Bere / 1856.

Despite obviously still being married to the Irish girl, who was granted administration of his meagre estate, his death was registered by a Teresa Spode.