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Order of St. John, was born May 21st, 1844, and succeeded 

 his father in 1866. He was educated at Eton, and after- 

 wards joined the ist Life Guards ; he resigned his com- 

 mission in 1869. Previous to his elevation, on his father's 

 death, to the Upper House, Lord Tyrone represented the 

 County of Waterford, A few years after his succession to 

 the title and estates, the Marquis indulged his lifelong 

 partiality for the chase, by assuming the Mastership of the 

 Curraghmore Hounds, which in former days had been 

 hunted by his uncle, the 3rd Marquis. Representing in 

 a high degree the sportsmanlike habits and qualities which 

 had been displayed by so many of his line, he, during 

 his Mastership, raised the Curraghmore to a prosperity 

 and popularity which exceeded anything in its earlier 

 history. He was a Vice-President of the Hunt Servants' 

 Benefit Society, and was ever interested in the welfare of 

 that admirable institution. In June, 1885, Lord Waterford 

 was appointed Master of the Buckhounds, and, during his 

 short term of office, upheld his high reputation as a sports- 

 man. He was twice married ; in the first instance to 

 Florence Grosvenor, second daughter of the late Major 

 Rowley, who died in 1873 ; and secondly, in 1874, to 

 Lady Blanche Elizabeth Somerset, only daughter of the 

 8th Duke of Beaufort. His Lordship died on October 23rd, 



1895. 



1886. — Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield, was 

 born on January 2nd, 1830, and succeeded his half-brother 

 in 1853. In 1854 his lordship married Cecilia Annette, 

 daughter of Henry Baring, Esq., and sister of Edward, first 

 Lord Revelstoke. Lord Suffield held a Lieutenant's com- 

 mission in the 7th Hussars, and was Colonel of the 2nd 



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