SIR EDWARD KENNEDY, 1868- 1874 



apparently as well mounted and turned out as any 

 Hunt servants can be. 



" Among the occupants of Lord Clonmell's 

 carriage are Sir Michael Hicks Beach who repre- 

 sents right worthily the chivalry of the Beaufort 

 and Berkeley hunts, and is said to be the hardest 

 riding secretary since Mr Horsman vindicated his 

 nomenclature over the Irish pastures; Lord Fortes- 

 cue, his father-in-law, and Colonel Foster, the Duke 

 of Abercorn's Master of the Horse. 



" In Lord Cloncurry's carriage are Mr Fortescue 

 Tynte, known to his own circle generally as ' Forty,' 

 some say because he crosses the country at that 

 rate of miles per hour; the Hon. E. Lawless, whom 

 I would strongly recommend no man on a doubt- 

 ful hunter to follow unless he wishes to be sat 

 upon by the coroner; Capt. R. Mansfield; Mr. 

 Percy La Touche, the subject of many a qucesitum; 

 the Marquess of Drogheda, the * Prince of Pun- 

 chestown '; Mr R. Moore, and his son Mr St. 

 Leger Moore, as good over the country as in a polo 

 rally; Mr T. Conolly, M.P., who has not lost the 

 dash and dan which led him to join Lee's broken 

 ranks in the southern army; Baron de Robeck, ex- 

 Master, and still as keen as cayenne; the Hon. C. 

 and R. Bourke, both heavily but well mounted, and 

 last but not least, the Master, well planted in his 

 saddle, riding a plain but most workmanlike hunter. 



" Here we are at Arthurstown on a gently swell- 

 ing eminence, grass all around us like the prairies, 

 in front of four or five acres of luxurious gorse 



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