SIR FENTON AYLMER AND MR A. HENRY 



ascribes the foundation of the Kildare Hunt to 

 Mr T. Conolly, the credit is due to Sir Fenton, 

 and that a chief part of the success of the hunt 

 which has been enjoyed by several generations of 

 foxhunters who have hunted in Kildare since his 

 day is owing to the generous sportsman who died 

 untimely at Cork in 1816. 



I am further indebted to Sir Anthony Weldon 

 for some old memoranda which disclose the exist- 

 ence of another small hunting establishment in 

 Kildare at the beginning of the last century; a 

 short account of it may well conclude the chapter 

 of Sir Fenton Aylmer's Mastership with which it 

 was contemporary. The Leinster Harriers were 

 formed at a meeting held at Athy, when the follow- 

 ing gentlemen with that purpose in view subscribed 

 various sums ranging from five guineas to five and 

 twenty in order to form the pack. 



Colonel FitzGerald, Colonel Weldon, Revd A. 

 Weldon, Mr Benj. Braddell, Mr Wm Cuffe, Mr 

 Thos O'Mara, Mr Wm Caulfield, Mr J. H. Far- 

 range, Mr Robt Johnston, Mr J. M. Johnston, Mr 

 Michael Dillon, Mr Wm Richardson, Mr Thos 

 Roe, Mr Thos. Fitzgerald, Mr Andrew Conolly, 

 Mr Wheeler Harrington, Revd Wm Sutton, Mr 

 Fred Trench, Mr Robt Cooke, Mr John Butler, 

 Mr Wm Allen, Mr James Fitzgerald, Mr Wm 

 Verschoyle, Mr Thos Rawson, The Duke of 



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