The first travelling exotic animal shows in England took place around 1700, with increased access to remote locations and animals from the growing British Empire trade. Run by showman who could meet the craving for sensation to show the ordinary person something they had never seen, eventually they began to grow in size. The largest and best known was ‘Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie’ founded by George Wombwell, (24 December 1777 – 16 November 1850). The first exotic animal known to have been exhibited in America was a lion, in Boston in 1716, followed five years later in the same city by a camel. In 1727 a lion cold be seen in Philadelphia, and in 1796 the first elephant seen in America was on display in New York City. In 1834 James and William Howes’ New York Menagerie toured New England with an elephant, a rhinoceros, a camel, zebra, gnu, two tigers, a polar bear, and several parrots and monkeys.