SIR FENTON AYLMER AND MR A. HENRY 



dates for admission, and their balloting resulted in 

 the election of twenty other gentlemen. I note here 

 that the committee comprised the following names, 

 and as there is no mention of any proceedings 

 constituting the club, for our purposes these gentle- 

 men must be reckoned as the original members of 

 the Kildare Hunt Club in 1804. They are Sir 

 Fenton Aylmer, Bart., M.F.H., the Revd Cramer 

 Roberts, Mr Edward Hendrick, Mr Richard Hor- 

 nidge, Mr Robert Hamilton, Mr R. Ponsonby, Mr 

 Dennis, Mr CHnch, Mr D. Kirwan, Mr Graydon, 

 and Mr O'Reilly. To these may be added the names 

 of a few other gentlemen whose names appear in 

 subsequent entries in the minutes, but are not in- 

 cluded in any of the lists of elections after the first 

 records of 1804. These are Mr Bateman, Mr E. La 

 Touche, Colonel Lumm, Admiral Fish, Mr Richard 

 Conolly, and Mr William Colville. 



The inference I draw from the earlier pages of 

 this old minute book is that a club had been formed 

 soon after Sir Fenton established the pack in 1798, 

 which included the names I have set out and pro- 

 bably some others, and that it was only in 1804 that 

 the increasing number of sportsmen in the district 

 wishing to join suggested a definite organization 

 and the keeping of records. 



These records at first are very scanty. Apart from 

 three other meetings for balloting held at long 



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