1. hereford - Noun
2. Hereford - Proper noun
One of a breed of cattle originating in Herefordshire, England. The Herefords are good working animals, and their beef-producing quality is excellent.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI have known some grim bells, with not a single joyous note in the whole peal, so forced to hurry for a human festival, with their harshness made light of, as though the Bishop of Hereford had again been forced to dance in his boots by a merry highwayman. Alice Meynell
According to William of Malmesbury, after the meeting at Eamont Æthelstan summoned the Welsh kings to Hereford, where he imposed a heavy annual tribute and fixed the border between England and Wales in the Hereford area at the River Wye. Source: Internet
A celebrated single combat then took place between Bruce and Henry de Bohun who was the nephew of the Earl of Hereford. Source: Internet
"erat optimi vir ingenii et praecipue promptulus in responsionibus bonis" Giraldus Cambrensis "De rebus a se gestis" in Opera I p. 58. Gerald tells the story of a banquet at Hereford in 1186 where Rhys sat between two members of the Clare family. Source: Internet
Both men were also named to earldoms – fitzOsbern to Hereford (or Wessex) and Odo to Kent. Source: Internet
Barlow Edward the Confessor pp. 197–199 The authors of the Handbook of British Chronology Third Edition say he was named bishop of Hereford in 1056, holding the see until he resigned it in 1060, Fryde, et al. Source: Internet