MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 39 



Miss Wade, daughter of Mr. William Wade, of Clone- 

 braney, in the County Meath, and shortly afterwards 

 his father resigned the mastership of the pack into 

 his hands. 



Mr. Power had always been a strong Whig, espous- 

 ing the cause of Catholic Emancipation, and was an 

 influential man in his county, and therefore much 

 thought of by the party to which he belonged. The 

 names of Whig and Tory have become obsolete, and 

 the principles which they advocated somewhat merged 

 in modern ideas ; but the line of demarcation was 

 then very strong, and Mr. Power had no love for the 

 Tories of his day, their rigid notions of Conservatism 

 being little to his liking. It is related that on one 

 occasion, after a good run, his hounds were running 

 up Tory Hill, at the southern end of the county, and 

 horses were pretty well beat. Mr. Power jumped off 

 and proceeded to lead his horse up, exclaiming as he 

 did so, " I ivis/i every Tory was rolled out flat >" His 

 political opinions, together with his prominent posi- 

 tion in the county, led to an offer of a baronetcy by 

 Lord Normanby, the Whig Lord Lieutenant of the 

 day, shortly after he had paid a visit to Kilfanc in 

 the year 1836. At first Mr. Power was disposed to 

 refuse the honour. However, his friends advised 

 otherwise, and he eventually accepted the offer, and 

 was created a baronet in July, 1836. Henceforth we 

 must know him as Sir John Power. After marriage 

 his son continued to live at Kilfane for a year or two, 

 and then went to reside at Sion, near Kilkenny, to 

 which place he moved the hounds, after keeping them 

 for a year or so at Blackwcll Lodge, near Bennett's- 



