BARON DE ROEECK, 1862-1868 



away, Kill Hill, for a wonder, yielded no fox, but 

 at Kilteel they found and ran to Johnstown. Here 

 a fresh fox was found and with the hounds well 

 up ran through Newcastle and on to Castlebagot, 

 where hounds were drawn off after sunset. 



It may not be out of place to take advantage of 

 the sporting papers, which now begin to help me, 

 in order to give a list of the personnel of a first meet 

 in the middle of Baron de Robeck's mastership. 



At Johnstown, accordingly, on that November 9, 

 1866, were the Baron himself, of course. Lord and 

 Lady Drogheda, Lord Clonmell, Lord St Lawrence, 

 Mr E. S. Cole, Sir Ed. Kennedy and his sons, Mr 

 Robert and Mr William Kennedy, Sir James Higgin- 

 son, Mr F. E. J. Macdonnell, Mrs and the Misses 

 Beauman, Mr William and Mr Arthur Owen, Major 

 Garden (then Master of the Queen's County hounds) , 

 Mr E. S. R. Smythe, Mr Horace Rochfort, Mr 

 Richard Moore, Mr Charles Hoffmann, Mr George 

 Mansfield, Mr and Mrs R. Cornwall, Mr E. A. 

 Mansfield, Captain and Mrs Tuthill, Mr J. W. 

 Wakefield, Capt. Warburton, Mr Augustus War- 

 burton, Mr Isaac Maunders, Mr R. W. Maunders, 

 Mr Thomas and Mr Hans Hendrick, Mr P. J. 

 Sweetman, Mr J. P. Tynte, Mr F. Tynte, Capt. 

 Moore, Mr P. Nolan, Mr F. M. Carroll, Mr Hugh 

 Henry, Mr C. T. Cramer Roberts, Mr David 

 O'Connor Henchy, Capt. and Mrs Davis, Capt. 



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