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CHAPTER XXIV. 



MR. JOHN HUBERT MOORE. 



I VENTURE to assert that the following brief memoir 

 of the gentleman whose name figures at the top of the 

 page will be read with interest. On both sides of 

 the Shannon, as well as of St. George's Channel, he 

 has a legion of friends. Over the stone-walls of Galway, 

 the banks and ditches of Leinster, and the oxers of 

 many an English shire, he has, by his brilliant style 

 of riding to hounds, established his undeniable claim 

 to the distinction of being regarded as a "first-flight 

 man." 



In the land of his nativity, the cordial greetings 

 invariably accorded to him when his blue-and-white 

 jacket — colours familiar to every Irish racing man — is 

 carried successfully, is a proof of his popularity. And 

 those who know him best will coincide with me when 

 I say that he is a " sportsman complete." 



John Hubert Moore was born, in 1819, at Shannon- 

 grove, in the county Galway ; and is the eldest son of 

 Captain Garrett Moore, of the younger branch of the 

 O'M cores, who were, in 1664, banished from their ter- 

 ritory of Leix, in the Queen's County, to Connaught, by 

 Cromwell, who believed all who were in that province 

 to be beyond the pale of civilisation. 



O' Byrne, in his History of the Queen's County, 



