Biographical Sketch of 



SIR BACHE CUNARD, Baronet, 



Master 1878-88. 



Sir Bache Cunard, the third Baronet, of Nevill Holt, 

 Leicestershire, was born on the 15th of May 1851, and 

 succeeded his father, Sir Edward, in 1869; he was edu- 

 cated at Rugby, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is 

 a Justice of the Peace and Deputy-Lieutenant for the 

 County. Sir Bache married Maude, a daughter of the late 

 Mr. E. F. Burke, of New York, and has a daughter, Nancy, 

 born 1896. 



Sir Bache was already well known and very popular 

 in the hunting field and other arenas of sport, before he 

 came forward (upon the resignation of Mr. Tailby) at the 

 age of twenty-seven, with an offer to hunt the country. 



Sir Bache's brother and heir-presumptive is Mr. Gordon 

 Cunard, of Thorpe Lubbenham, Market Harborough, who 

 is also a regular follower of hounds ; he married in 1889 

 Edith Mary, daughter of the late Colonel John Stanley 

 Howard, of Ballina Park, co. Wicklow, and has three sons, 

 viz., Edward, born 1890 ; Anthony Gordon, born 1893 ; and 

 Victor, born 1898. From the " Dictionary of National 

 Biography," we learn that the first Baronet, Sir Samuel, 

 was born in Nova Scotia in 1787. In 1838 he came to 

 England with an introduction from Sir James Melvill, of 

 the India House, to Robert Napier, of Glasgow, the eminent 

 marine engineer, to whom Cunard gave an order for four 

 steamships, each of 1,200 tons burden and 440 horse power. 

 The project then assuming a proportion which was beyond 

 the resources of a private individual, he joined with Mr. 

 George Burns, of Glasgow, and Mr. David Maclver, of 

 Liverpool, and established in 1839 The British and North 

 American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The 



