“If you don’t take the cab out on Sunday, you shan’t on Monday,” the proprietor declared; but Cockram at once offered to pay him 5_s._ every Saturday night to allow his horse and cab to remain in the yard on the following day. The proprietor agreed to this arrangement, and Cockram drove for him for two years, during which time he paid off the money which he owed for the smashed cab, and began educating himself, while waiting on the rank, by studying _Cassell’s Popular Educator_. In 1860 Cockram competed for and won a prize of £20 offered for the best essay on “Sunday cab-driving, and its influence on the religious, domestic, and physical condition of those employed.” Cockram wrote his essay in the streets, using the top of his hansom as a writing-desk. On the essay being published in book form, George Moore, the philanthropist, Sir Hope Grant, and Mr. J. T. Delane, the editor of the _Times_, sent for Cockram, congratulated him on his work, and made many inquiries concerning Sunday cab work. Colonel H. Knollys mentions in his “Life of General Sir Hope Grant,” that the General commissioned Cockram to buy him a cheap cab-horse to use in his private hansom, and promised him £5 for his trouble. Cockram purchased a horse for £38, but refused to accept more than £2, his usual charge for such transactions. Some years later Cockram published a useful little book entitled, “The Horse in Sickness, and how to treat him.” In 1862 Cockram and another young driver started business as cab proprietors. Each had saved £100, and with their joint capital they purchased seven horses, three cabs, and seven sets of harness. The partners were of one opinion concerning Sunday work, and a clause was inserted in their deed of partnership prohibiting either of them from letting out, or using for their own pleasure, on Sunday, any horse or vehicle. They prospered, and in 1877, the year in which they sold their business, they possessed cabs, omnibuses, broughams, traps, and 126 horses. Since retiring from business Mr. Cockram has been a member of the Richmond Town Council and the Richmond Board of Guardians, and, in June, 1895, gave evidence before the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Lord’s Day Act. For many years Cockram has been an active member of the Open Air Mission, and is frequently called upon to speak at meetings of the Working Men’s Lord’s Day Rest Association, and kindred societies. Although now sixty-eight years of age, he is still very energetic, and when I last saw him--three or four months ago--he was preparing to start off on his bicycle to hold a service many miles away from London.