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 72 Wi^TERFORD. (which had been left to her in dower by her huebend), 12 Mey 1891, in her 74tii year, and waa htr. at Ford.(*) IV. 1859. 4- John db-la-Pobr (Bsbisfobd), Mabqubss of Watbrpord, kc. [I.], alao Baroh Ttrohb of Uavrrvorowrst, next aurF. br.(l>) and h., being 4Ui a. of Uie 2d Maniueaa ; 6. 27 April 1814 at l^rone Houae ; waa ttyUd Lord John Bereaford till 1859 ; ed. at Trin. Coll., Gambndge ; M.A. 1885. Incumbent of MuUaghbrack, oo. Armagh, and Rural Dean ; me, to tks peerage, aa abo?e, 29 March 1859. He m. 20 Feb. 1843, Cfariatiana, eiater of Sir John Lealie, let Bart., da. of Charlea Powell Lxsui, of Qlaalough, co. Monaghan, by hia aeoond wife Ohriatian, da. of Oeoiige Fobbkrt, of Clorane, oo. Limeri<£. He d. of gaatrio fever, 6 No?. 1866, at Curraghmore, aged 52, and waa bur. at Clonegan, co. Waterford. Hia widow Uviug 1897. y. 1866. 5. John Hbnrt dk-la-Pobb (Bbrrsford), Mabquiss OP Watrrfokd, kc [I.], alao Baron Ttronb op Uatbrfordwkt, let a. and h. ; 6. 21 May 1844 in London ; ed. at Eton ; Hyled Sarl op Ttromb, 1859-66 ; an officer iu the Ist Life Guarda, 1862-69 ; M.P. for co. Waterford, 1865-66; tue. to the jtteraye, aa above, 6 Nov. 1866 ; K.P., 17 Nov. 1868 ; L.-Lieut. of CO. Waterford, 1874; P.O. [I.]. 1880; P.O. [O.B.], 1885; Maater of the Back- hounda, 1885-86. He m. firntly, 9 Aiik.,(c) at the llegiator office, St Qeo. Han. aq., Flumnce Groavciior, divorcu<l wifo of the lion. John Crunch Walker Vivian, 2<1 da. of George IIowlky, Major 2d Bombny cavalry, by Kmily Isabella, da. of Lieut.-Col. Robert Honnbr, of Lbc Mount, co. Cork. She d, 4 April 1878, at 27 Cheaham place, aged 83, after childbirth of a atill born infant 5 daya before, and waa 6Mr. at Clonegan afad. He m. aecondly, 21 July 1874, at St. Michael's, Badmington, co. Gloucester, Blanche Elizabeth Adelaide, only da. of Henry Charlea Fitaroy (Soubbsbt), 8th DuKB OF Bbauport, by Geoi^ua Charlotte, da. of Richard (Curson), lat Earl HowB. He c2., having shot himaelf,(<>) 23 Oct. 1895, at Curraghmore, aged 61, and waa hur, at Clonegan. Will pr. at £88,467 personalty. Hia widow, who waa 5. 26 March 1856, d, 22 Feb. 1897, at Curraghmore. {*) It ia aaid that she would have been " The Queen of beauty " at the Eglinton tournament, in 1839, had it not been decided that none but a married person ahould hold that position. She waa also au artist of no mean merit Her ''artiatic and chariteble labours " as also her exemplary career have been very fully set forth (1) by Augustua Hare in his Two Noble Livet, namely those of herself and her sister, Counteaa Canning [aee vol. vii, p. 295, note " b,"] in which he writes that *' it waa only aa Louiaa Stuart grew to girlhood that her marvelloua beauty shewed itself," but that her sister, Viscountess Canning, was *' perfectly lovely from infancy " ; (2) by the Rev. H. M. Neville in his Under a Border Tower, . . . Ford Caetle, where ** Uie first half is wholly aurrendered to her . . . Mr. Hare spoke of ' our Lady* with bated breath, like a pilgrim at a abriue ; Mr. Neville chants his orisons at the aanie alter. The tone is natural enough in the welctitue guest and biographer ; it ia almost ineviUble in the pariah priest of my Lady lk>untifur' [Atkenaumt No. 3590, p. 316 ; 16 Aug. 1896]. The estete of Ford Castle in 1876 was 6,537 acres, worth £10,089 a year. (^) Lord William de-la- Poer Beresford, the intermediate br. (8d a. of the 2d Marquess), h. 2 Dec. 1812 ; an officer in the Life Guards ; d, unm., 18 Oct 1850, at Hegent'a Park barracks, aged 38. (0) A^ic, not 8 July, as generally ateted. {^) The verdict waa temporary iuaanity. He had for the last 12 years been a great sufferer from a sprain in his bacK caused by a fall when in the hunting field. Of him wrote John Morley, then Sea for Ireland, in a private letter, 1894, only a year before hia death, " I liked Lord Waterford aa well aa I did when I last met lum iu London. He haa a thoroughly able, direct, frank, masculine mind, and with a good deal of liberality and breadth of apprehenaion. They aay he ia of a dictetorial turn. Perhaps ; I don't know. It does not prevent him from being a man of strong, clear sense, and of hearty straight ways. We telked Ireland in and out, up and down, hour after hour — ^land question, Home Rule, Catholic and Protestant ... I should never desire to meet a more acute, frank, manly diaputent ... I felt the value of hearing the landlord view, put at ite best, by the man who ia far the ablest in that camp.*'