SIR EDWARD KENNEDY, 1868-1874 



amount anticipated. These public-spirited gentle- 

 men were Sir James Power, Mr J. P. Tynte, Mr 

 W. H. F. Cogan, Mr R. Moore, Baron de Robeck, 

 Mr E. A. Mansfield and Mr D. Mahony. I may add 

 that the expenditure for the season just passed was 

 exactly ^1,900, and there was a balance of ,£139 in 

 the hands of the Treasurer. 



Sir Charles Edward Bayly Kennedy was in his 

 forty-eighth year when he took the hounds. Any 

 introductory remarks concerning one of his name 

 would be superfluous to any of my readers in the 

 Kildare country, and to any others who may have 

 followed me thus far, the weight of the name of 

 Kennedy in all matters connected with sport in the 

 county must be manifest. Was it not Sir Edward's 

 father. Sir John, who kept the hounds from 18 14 to 

 1 84 1, and left a record of every day's hunting 

 during the greater part of that period; and did not 

 his younger brother, Mr William Kennedy, worthily 

 maintain the great sporting tradition of the family 

 by hunting the country with the greatest success 

 from 1847 to 1854? His other brother, too, Mr 

 Robert Kennedy, conspicuous in the field during 

 the regimes of eight Masters and indefatigable 

 always in promoting the interests of the Hunt, is 

 still happily with us, and to his great kindness and 

 wonderful memory I owe most of anything which 

 may be found interesting in my undertaking. 



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