LORD CLONMELL, 1854-1857 



father indeed was earthstopper at that covert. 

 Han way died at the age of near seventy in 1902, 

 after having been a prominent follower of the 

 hounds under every Master of the preceding half 

 century. 



To any who had seen Hanway, either in the field 

 or at any other of his famous performances over 

 the innumerable steeplechase courses he fre- 

 quented in every part of Ireland it was little short 

 of a miracle that he died from a heart attack in his 

 bed. As it was, Hanway at one time or another had 

 broken most of the bones in his body. And yet he 

 retained a youthful appearance and a youthful 

 vigour to the end of his life, which deceived all 

 who had not watched his career as to his real age 

 and enabled him to ride a point-to-point race in the 

 very year of his death. 



Nominally William was a farmer, and his family, 

 I believe, still occupy his holding; his own tenancy 

 was broken by more than one eviction. But Wil- 

 liam's farming was only that of the amateur; his 

 real vocation had nothing to do with anything but 

 horses and hounds and such business or diversion 

 as could be got out of both in hunting, racing, deal- 

 ing and betting. 



Such a character is very dear to the Irish heart, 

 and William's popularity with the Irish peasant 

 to whom he was a hero is embalmed in the phrase 



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