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Super picture. For once, this service dress looks 'used' - creases on a pocket and on the sleeve; bulging right pocket (who knows what!). His tie looks a bit rough, too. Either his batman has let him down, or he has just come inside for a photograph, after a morning's hack. Nice picture. Interesting story.

9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers. Not 9th Battalion.

Later Sir Charles Wilfrid Bennett, Baronet Kirklington, (15 Mar 1898 - 25 Apr 1952), son of Sir Albert James Bennett, 1st Bt., MP (1872-1945) and Caroline Carleton Backus. 'Wilfrid' Bennett married Agnes Marion Somervell, daughter of James Somervell, on 3 June 1927. They had two children: A daughter Anne Bennett b. 7 Oct 1928; and a son, Ronald Wilfrid Murdoch Bennett, later 3rd Bt, b. 25 Mar 1930. He received the Territorial Decoration for his Territorial service. He gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. After the First World War he was admitted to Inner Temple in 1924 and was entitled to practice as a Barrister-at-Law. He fought in the Second World War, where he was mentioned in despatches. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Bennett, of Kirklington, Nottingham on 14 December 1945. He held the office of Metropolitan Police Court Magistrate between 1946 and 1952.//

Superb capture. Have a good day

Nice shot

Some biographical info on C-B-C here (warning - pdf).

I read the bio - and added a tag, "mule." This doesn't appear to be a horse, folks. Mules are smart and long on endurance.

It is a horse- Just because it is ugly doesn't make it a mule. It's ears are too small to be a mule

It's a horse. This horse is a descendant of the horses that the Spanish brought over and is typically called a "cayouse," after the native tribe that used them. Look at some of Remington's works and you will see that most of the Indian and cow ponys of that time were like this pony. A tough breed and hard worker.

This is definitely not a mule -- the tag should be removed. It's a horse that's not especially attractive, but not necessarily a cayuse either -- just a good, sturdy horse of mixed breed, apparently roan in color. Frankly as long as the "mule" tag is removed the breed doesn't much matter.

"When the Dublin-Cork railway was being built in the middle of the 19th century the contemporary Lord Hawarden gave the company 22 miles of free passage through his lands as a result of which the railway line went to Cork via Dundrum and Limerick Junction rather than through Cashel and Mitchelstown. The pay-off for the landlord of Dundrum was a private waiting-room at Dundrum Station and a warning bell in Dundrum House when the train left Gouldscross travelling south or Limerick Junction when travelling north." From here.

Streetview (the building on the left). 25" OSI

This station opened in 1848 - Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Viscount Hawarden was the local Lord at the time. His son was also Cornwallis Maude and was the 4th Viscount Hawarden from 1856, the 4th Baron de Montalt of Hawarden and the 6th baronet Maude. He was created 1st Earl de Montalt of Dundrum in 1886. On his death in 1905 the titles became extinct, so this was not the waiting room of a Lord when O'Dea took the picture, more of a historical note. Edit: I tell a lie - the Earldom became extinct (as his son died in 1881 in the first Boer war) but his cousin Robert Henry Maude inherited his other titles. The house and estate were bought by the Land Commission. The 6th Viscount (also Robert) was killed in action in 1914. The title is now held by Robert Connan Wyndham Leslie Maude, 9th Viscount Hawarden. The station closed in 1976.

The Earl's wife (per wikipedia) was a noted photographer: Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) was a respected photographer of her time; and some of her early work took place on the family estate at Dundrum and is now part of the collections of the Victoria and Albert museum in London. A Google image search finds many of her photos.

Niall McAuley The earlier title was "reverted" so there was a Baronet Maude in 1961. However, Dundrum House had long been an Industrial School by that point (and is now a hotel) so it still wasn't a Lord's waiting room in 1961.