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CHAPTER XXIII. 



THE CORINTHIAN CUP PICTURE — CONTINUED. 



A LITTLE in the background, on a favourite hunter, is 

 the tall figure of theMarquis of Drogheda. The likeness 

 was an admirable one. Henry Francis Seymour Moore, 

 3rd Marquis of Drogheda, K.P.,P.C., late Lieutenant- 

 Colonel of the Kildare Rifles, Ranger of the Curragh 

 of Kildare, and Lieutenant of Kildare, the only child 

 of Lord Henry Seymour Moore and Mary Parnell, 

 second daughter of Sir Henry Parnell, created first 

 Lord Congleton, was born on the 14th of August, 

 1825, and succeeded his uncle in 1837. 



The Marquis, who is descended from a very dis- 

 tinguished ancestry, at a very early age went to Eton, 

 and having spent six years there, returned to Ireland 

 and entered Trinity College, where he graduated. 

 After a very long minority, having ample means and 

 an undeniable taste for out-door amusements, he on 

 attaining his majority, became a patron of field 

 sports — hunting, racing, and coursing, to all of which 

 he has ever since been unflinching in his support. 

 When twenty-two years of age, he took the master- 

 ship of the Queen's County Hounds; and during his 

 reign, which lasted three years, showed first-rate sport, 

 although many difficulties beset men in his position 

 during these troubled times, the famine years. The 

 first race the Marquis of Drogheda won was the Kildare 

 Hunt Cup, with Improvident, when the meeting was 



