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to a sportsman." He died very suddenly ; and very 

 soon after I last heard from him he was on his death- 

 bed. Take him for all and all, his like we seldom see. 

 He was fond of steeplechasing, and had a few horses, 

 but never was very fortunate on the turf. 



Any interest which I may have stirred up in my 

 references to those who were the subjects of Mr. 

 Hayes' portraiture would be very greatly supplemented 

 were the names of some Irish sportsmen not repre- 

 sented there dealt with, and amongst them some of 

 Captain Richard Bernard's relatives would be entitled 

 to a foremost place. I use the centurion title because 

 it was that borne by the present Chamberlain, Deputy 

 Ranger, and Colonel of the King's County Rifles, af 

 the time when the picture was painted. It was 

 hereditary in the Bernard family to ride, especially in 

 the generation of which Richard Wellesly Bernard 

 made one. His mother was a Hutchinson, of the 

 Donaughmore family, and aunt to the Hon. W. 

 Hutchinson. His father, of Castle Bernard, in 

 the King's County, and his father before him, 

 were as noted in the saddle as for their banking 

 enterprise. It is not wonderful, therefore, that Colonel 

 Richard Bernard, like his brothers Scrope and 

 Thomas, attained a reputation as a dashing horse- 

 man. 



As a resident landlord, discharging all the duties 

 attaching to a country gentleman's position, Colonel 

 Thomas Bernard has acquired a praise more valuable 

 than that which many years ago, before he lost his 

 hand by a gun accident when grouse-shooting, had 

 been accorded him for his exploits as a game shot, in 

 the saddle and on the coach-box. His other brother 



