Wilfred Bagwell-Purefoy (13 June 1862 – 10 March 1930)[1] was a British breeder of racehorses and a director of several companies.
[4] He collected rare orchids and was interested in gardening and natural history, but his introduction to the British Isles of exotic plants and insects was denounced by naturalists.
[5] His brother Edward Bagwell Purefoy served in the Boer war and was a lepidoperist who reintroduced the large copper on their estate.
Bagwell-Purefoy is chiefly remembered as one of a group of five gamblers who formed the Druid’s Lodge confederacy.
The gamblers owned Hackler's Pride, winner of the Cambridgeshire Handicap in 1903 and again in 1904, yielding them a spectacular payoff.