CHAPTER VII 

 MR WILLIAM KENNEDY, 1847-1854 



THE tradition of a Kildare man as Master 

 of the Kildare Hounds was continued by 

 the acceptance of the Mastership on Mr 

 Henchy's retirement by Mr William Kennedy, Sir 

 John Kennedy's second son, and brother to Mr 

 Robert Kennedy, whose recollections are so invalu- 

 able to me. 



Mr Kennedy was already well known in the Kil- 

 dare country as a famous rider both to hounds and 

 as an amateur jockey, and it was no surprise to 

 Kildare men that the success as Master which had 

 had been so marked in the case of Sir John Ken- 

 nedy was repeated by his son. I personally rejoice 

 in one other trait of the Kennedy family, that of 

 keeping a diary of their fox-hunting. Mr Wm Ken- 

 nedy followed his father's footsteps in that com- 

 mendable habit, and by the kindness of his daugh- 

 ter, Miss Kennedy, of Colathampton, who has 

 been so good as to place his notes at my disposal, I 



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