THE CURRAGHMORE HOUNDS. 75 



There is not a selfish feather-game preserver, nor a 

 single grumbling farmer in the county. 



The present Lord Waterford was born in 1844, 

 and succeeded to the title as fifth marquis, in 

 November, 1866. The marquisate is not of a 

 very ancient date, but the Barony of De la Poer 

 is, as it was created in 1375, and to this as well 

 as to other titles his lordship succeeded ; but as 

 I am a bad chronologist, I must refer you to Burke 

 if you desire to know more on this head. He was 

 educated at Eton, and in 1862, he got his commis- 

 sion in the First Life Guards. He represented the 

 county of Waterford in parliament as Lord Tyrone for 

 some time before his elevation to the House of Lords. 

 While in the Guards he evinced a strong liking for 

 a soldier's life, and soon got imbued with that love of 

 order and discipline which characterises and qualifies 

 him, as it eminently does, for the due regulation of his 

 gigantic and princely establishment. He first mar- 

 ried Florence Grosvenor, second daughter of the late 

 Major Rowley, and niece to Sir Charles Rowley, Bart. 

 She died in 1873, and in 1874 he married the pre- 

 sent Marchioness, Blanche, only daughter of the Duke 

 of Beaufort. As already mentioned, he took up the 

 Curraghmore from the county in 1870. He gave Duke 

 the horn, and under him put G. Hagar, as first whip, 

 and Billy Quin as second ; Hagar was succeeded the 

 next season by Dan Ryan, son of old Johnny Ryan the 

 former huntsman, and now he has Arthur Wilson, and 

 John Crowley in their places. Lord Waterford's 

 turn-out of his hunting establishment is about as 

 perfect and as workmanlike as it can possibly be. 

 The men have that "smart" appearance that none 



