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Abbey coverts. He is an enthusiastic and successful 

 yachtsman. I should add, that he married, August, 1847, 

 the Hon. Mary Caroline, eldest daughter of the second 

 Lord • Wharncliffe. To "sum up," I may observe 

 that the Marquis of Drogheda may be said to have 

 played the role of a man of the world and a sports- 

 man, and to have acquitted himself to such satisfaction, 

 that there is no more popular member of society in 

 the country. 



By the Marquis we find a good portrait of the late 

 Surgeon Rynd, the especial friend of riding men, and 

 than whom there was no more enthusiastic lover of 

 sport in the land. 



The place of honour was accorded by the artist to 

 the late Captain the Hon. J. W. Hely-Hutchinson, 

 A.D.C., on Torrent, as he occupies the centre fore- 

 ground, and the likeness is a "speaking" one. Captain 

 Hutchinson was brother to the late and uncle to the 

 present Lord Donoughmore. Of the many noted 

 sportsmen who died on the inhospitable shores of the 

 Crimea, none were more universally and sincerely re- 

 gretted than he. In him the turf lost one of its best 

 supporters, the army one of its most esteemed orna- 

 ments, and hundreds mourned at his death for a 

 staunch, generous friend and bon camarade^ who never 

 failed a suppliant, or quailed before shot, shell, or 

 "yawner." With the lightest of hands, firmest seat 

 in the saddle, and a heart ever in the right place, he 

 was a perfect horseman. 



In 1850, at the Dundalk Garrison Races, he was 

 invincible. Three races were run, and he rode the 

 winner of each, including a match for 50 sovs. on his 

 mare Mariam, in which he beat an officer of his own 



