† Salt is a dead Female ♀ Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1952-10-05 at Ringlands Circus (Big Tom Fossett), in United Kingdom, . Official death reason described as pneumonia.
1: George Lockhart Sr. (owner from 1902 to 1904) 2: Herbert Taylor (owner from 1904 to 1922) 3: Big Tom Fossett (owner from 1947 to 1952) 4: Dennis Fossett Sr. (owner from 1952 to 1952)
Salt was born wild at Asia unspecified location. and imported 1898? by Firma Carl Hagenbeck
1898: From import of India, the 4 elephants Salt, Sauce (later Jumbo), Vinegar and Mustard, were trained by Wilhelm Philadelphia, a number called "The Cruet", which was sold to England in 1902 and later presented as "Lockharts Elephants". 1904: George Lockhart Sr. was tragically killed by Salt.
Salt and Sauce were regularly promoted on Ringland's Circus (the circus owned by Dennis Fossett and formerly by his father, Tom Fossett) as being very old. One advert even has them around 90, so the exageration of the age is actually quite mild by comparison. The truth is Salt must have been in no more than in her early 50s when she died, as she and Sauce were clearly only babies when they first arrived in the UK in 1902 having been bought by George Lockhart Sr.
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