SIR FENTON AYLMER AND MR A. HENRY 



tinued under Mr Henry in the prosperity it had 

 enjoyed under Sir Fenton Aylmer's management. 

 The elections recruited the membership with a 

 constant stream of new blood, and such records as 

 exist relate almost solely to the necessary payment 

 of earthstoppers and of country people alleged to 

 be suffering from the depredations of the fox. 



I have, unhappily, been unable to discover any- 

 thing about the sport experienced under Mr Henry. 

 He himself in later days was strangely silent as to 

 any of his doings, and the same reticence extended 

 to his sons. But the tradition is that things were 

 done on a very elaborate and complete scale, so 

 much so that his immediate successor was chaffed 

 as " Cheap Jack " in comparison. Mr Henry's 

 descendant, Mr Arthur Henry, of Ballinabarney, 

 Rathnew, co. Wicklow, has very kindly searched 

 among the family papers for any information 

 bearing on the subject of fox-hunting, but has been 

 able to discover very little. Under date of May 3, 



181 3, he finds that Mr Henry " paid subscriptions 

 for Kennel ,^34 2 6, July 9th. 18 13; paid Mr Fitz- 

 gerald rent of Ballyragget Covert £8 14 io|, 18 14 ; 

 Paid Subscription to Kildare Hounds to ist. Novr. 



1 8 14, sent to Mr Annesley ,£22 150." entries which 

 do not help us very much. The two last, however, 

 would seem to point to the fact that there was a 

 regular subscription of five guineas odd to the 



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