Mr. Frank Hartigan 



public house is treasured at Rousham, the ancestral home of 

 the Cottrell-Dormer family. 



The story goes that though at one period Sir Clement 

 betted pretty heavily, he gave it up from the time that he 

 won a large sum of money from one who could ill afford to 

 part with it. 



An uncle, too, on his mother's side — her brother indeed — 

 the late Sir Greville Smith, though we never heard of his 

 actually owning any horses, was all his life devoted to the Turf ; 

 and backed his fancy very freely indeed on occasion, so that, 

 with the passions for the " sport of kings " distinctly traceable 

 in former generations of both families, it is clearly a case of 

 heredity with Mr. John Upton. 



Mr. frank hartigan 



A YOUNGER son of the celebrated veterinary surgeon of the 1 2th 

 Lancers, whose name is a household word all over Ireland, and 

 a nephew of the equally famous "Garry" Moore, at whose 

 place at Seven Barrows, Lambourne, he had been located since 

 a lad of thirteen with a view to learning the way he should go, 

 it would have been odd indeed when the time arrived for 

 Frank Hartigan to sport silk for the first time in public had he 

 failed to uphold the credit of his family, to say nothing of that 

 of his popular uncle who had been at such pains to perfect him 

 in the difficult art of riding over a country. 



Born in 1880, at Ballincollick, near Cork, the youthful 

 Frank spent most of his early days, when not at school, with 

 his grandfather, John Hubert Moore, until 1893, when he 

 went, as already stated, to his uncle at Lambourne, where he 



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