HISTORY OF THE KILDARE HUNT 



baronet saying that in consequence of the supposed 

 plots, on such a day, *' My dear Joe, all our friends 

 have agreed to hold a conference at Willy Burton's 

 of Burton Hall, co. Carlow, the most central point 

 for all hands, and as it will be about the time of our 

 annual hunting meet at the Hall, the hounds and 

 horses will start from Bishopscourt in a few days, so 

 nil r escribe attamen ipse veni.^^ 



The old baronet's party from Annabelle included 

 himself, the parliamentary son and sons-in-law, the 

 writer of the article to the Sporting Magazine, and 

 his cousin, " W. H. H.," but present members of 

 the Kildare Hunt will be perhaps more interested 

 in the personalities of the sportsmen who went 

 over from Bishopscourt and its neighbourhood, 

 and these the *' Irish Baronet " shall himself 

 describe. 



" We met at the hall ready to receive us," he 

 writes," Willy Burton, M .P. for the county, his eldest 

 son Ben Burton, one of the crack members of the 

 Bishopscourt Hunt, and afterwards well known in 

 Yorkshire and Warwickshire, where he settled; the 

 Rt. Hon. W. B. Ponsonby, Master of Hounds, and 

 his brother the Hon. G. Ponsonby, acting manager; 

 the Rt. Hon. Dennis Bowes Daly, par excellence, 

 the most sporting man in Ireland and M.P. for the 

 King's County, Lord Cole, M.P. for Inniskillen; 

 Jack St Leger, M.P., John Curran, M.P. for 

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