Description: Also known as John Wheeldon he worked as a rat catcher for Midland Railway. He was also a prizewinning member of Ambergate Cottage Garden Society. He lived at Sawmills. He is the only person known to have successfully trained foxes to 'rat' for economic use & claimed they were better than terriers because they could hold 5 rats in their mouths at once. The ratcatcher has to be quick, becuase unlike a teriier, foxes did not kill the rats outright. The teo best foxes were killed accidentally by gamekeepers. Such was his national fame that he was described in a book as a 'great sportsman & great Englishman!'. He died, aged 73, at the home of a friend in Belper in Nov. 1924. He was buried in Crich churchyard