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Wife of Prince Alexander of Teck who was appointed Governor-General of Canada in 1914. She was Princess Alice of Albany before her marriage. In 1917, she and her husband were commanded to drop their German titles (including Teck) by King George V. He became Duke of Athlone. She lived to the age of 97, as Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice,_Countess_of_Athlone

Fantastic, lovely hounds!

wonderful photos , i could spend all day looking through your photostream

shocko990 Thank you! Please feel free to do so... :)

I can imagine the sounds of these hounds as they are taken on a hunt shortly after this photo was taken. With the master proudly mounted on the horse, whose boot is barely seen, I am sure he commands all with just the boom of his voice.

I feel the boys in the left background were stable boys and not as fortunate as the boy with the dogs.

The Aylward family, from Bristol, had been granted Faithlegg (originally covering over 7000 acres of pastureland) by King Henry 11 in 1177 and held it until the armies of Oliver Cromwell dispossessed them during the invasions of 1654.The property was then granted to William Bolton. Over a century later, in 1783, the present house was built by Cornelius Bolton, who had inherited the Faithlegg Estate from his father in 1779. Financial difficulties followed and in 1819 the Bolton Family sold the house to the Power Family. Nicholas Mahon Power married Margaret Mahon and her dowry enabled him to buy Faithlegg House and Estate. The Powers were a wealthy merchant family from Waterford City and they adorned the estate with the stags head and cross, which was the Power family crest. It remains the emblem of Faithlegg to this day. On the death of Nicholas Power in 1873 his eldest son, Patrick Joseph (Pat) and his wife, Lady Olivia Nugent came to live in the house and commissioned Samuel Roberts to alter and enlarge the family mansion. The house passed to Hubert Power, the only son of Pat and Lady Olivia, and in 1920 upon Hubert’s death, it passed to his daughter, Eily Power. In 1935 Eilyand her husband sold the House to the De La Salle order of teaching Christian Brothers after which it acted as a novitiate until the 1980’s. The last remaining gap in history is from the 1980’s until 1998 when it was taken over by the Tower Hotel Group.

Munster Express, September 17th 2012

Streetview

Another view of Faithlegg House and the same entrance: flickr.com/photos/breslinarchive/51025953166/

And one more: flickr.com/photos/breslinarchive/51025953151/