74 MEMOIR OF THE KILKENNY HUNT. 



St. George, Mr. Anthony Packe, Mr. Hutchinson, 

 the present Lord Desart, when at home ; Mr. Augus- 

 tus Kennedy, Major the Hon. L. Agar Ellis (now 

 Lord Clifden), and others. 



Besides these were several good men from the 

 Queen's County and from Tipperary. Belonging to 

 the former county none was better than Mr. Charles 

 White, though only one-armed ; and of the Tip- 

 perary men few could beat Mr. George Gough of 

 Birdhill, a light-weight, and at one time Master of 

 the Tipperary Hounds. He died quite recently, 

 and had hunted regularly till within a few years of 

 his death. Many of these friends from across the 

 borders had been in the habit of attending Kilkenny 

 meets in the time of Sir John Power's mastership. 

 Of the old field none were going better than Mr. 

 John Wade, who, indeed, rode well for more than 

 twenty years longer, Mr. Marum, Mr. Robert Stan- 

 nard, Mr. Rochfort, Mr. Flood, Mr. Thomas Power ; 

 but some of the best of the old men, such as Mr. 

 Clayton Savage, Mr. William Bayly, Sir Richard 

 Cox, Mr. Power of Gurteen, and others, had passed 

 away, and the green fields of Kilkenny knew them 

 no more. Of these, Mr. Savage was the last to go. 

 He had been a close friend of Sir John, and usually 

 collected the half-crowns in the field, a duty which 

 was afterwards taken up by Mr. John Wade, who 

 performed that and many other important functions 

 in connection with the Hunt up to a late period of 

 life, and took the keenest interest in its welfare up to 

 the last. 



Captain Thomas Ponsonby was still a familiar 



