MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. I? 



Sir Nicholas Loftus was a great character, and 

 quite one of the old school ; very formal and polite 

 but a good sportsman and a racing man. He was a 

 bachelor, and lived with his brother, Captain Francis 

 Loftus, who succeeded him at Mount Loftus, where 

 the hunt breakfasts were regular institutions, the two 

 brothers taking wine with each other, in the approved 

 fashion of the day, at either end of the table, after 

 which an adjournment was made to see the racing 

 stud of Sir Nicholas and the kennel of setters and 

 pointers belonging to Captain Loftus. 



Mr. Henry Bushe, Mr. Power's brother-in-law, also 

 hunted, and was very fond of horses, which he loved 

 to train himself. His two sons, the late Colonel 

 Bushe, of Glencairn, and the late Mr. Richard Bushe, 

 were afterwards regular hunting men, and utterly 

 fearless riders. Their relatives, the Bushes of Kil- 

 murry, also took the field. The late Chief Justice 

 Bushe, a close friend of Mr. Power all his life, was 

 then Solicitor-General for Ireland, and came out occa- 

 sionally ; and his son, John Bushe, was a very hard 

 rider, and afterwards hunted much from Melton and 

 other centres in England. 



It has been stated by a gentleman who wrote an 

 account of the various Irish Hunts, some years since, 

 that Sir Hercules Langrishe, of Knocktopher, was a 

 prominent hunting man. This is a complete mistake. 

 When the Kilkenny Hunt was established, Sir 

 Hercules was an old man, and did not reside in the 

 county, and there is no record of his ever having 

 hunted. Nor did his son, Sir Robert, though an 

 intimate friend of the Power family, with whom he 



