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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

Streetveiw

The Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas, Galway.

Robert French would have taken the photograph from the two story house on the right. The window frame on the Lynch building can be seen in bottom right www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/22844068380/in/photolist-...

This is one of Galway’s great stories. It is said that in 1493, the mayor and magistrate of Galway James Lynch FitzStephen, hanged his own son from the window of his home. Lynch's son confessed to have murdered a man, a Spanish merchant sailor in the care of the family who had romanced his girlfriend. When no one could be found to carry out the execution, Judge Lynch hanged (or lynched as the practice became known around the world after this event) his son himself, ensuring that justice prevailed, before retiring into seclusion. The memorial is now embedded in stone above a Gothic doorway on Market Street near the graveyard at St. Nicholas’s Church. www.activeme.ie/guides/attractions-2/lynchs-memorial-wind...

Via Chetham's Library with interesting comments and legible inscriptions at large size -

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J Mattersons Bacon Factory. Roches Street Limerick.

All about lard including what lard bladders are - "pigs’ bladders, dried, inflated, and filled with lard".

There's a description of a visit to the factory in 1866 here.

Joseph Matterson and family + Teacher + Butler etc in the Census 1901 He is described as a Magistrate, provisions merchant and Ham & Bacon curer.

COUSIN SAYS BEATTIE ADMITTED MURDER; " I Wish I Hadn't Done It," Witness Declares Defendant Told Him After His Wife Was Killed. August 29, 1911, Tuesday Page 1, 3351 words CHESTERFIELD COURT HOUSE, Va., Aug. 28. -- Showing intense emotion, Paul D. Beattie, cousin of Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., who is on trial here for the murder of his wife, declared on the witness stand late to-day that the defendant told him twenty-four hours after the murder that he was sorry "he had done it," a circumstance relating to the crime that the witness hitherto had suppressed. In another article about this case, another witness is justice of the peace Jacobs. BEATTIE WITNESS HEARD GIRL SCREAM; This Was Followed by a Gunshot, Man Living Near Place of Wife's Murder Testifies. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C04EFDB1531E233A...