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Mr G. Todd might be one of them - from the catalogue "Mr. G. Todds Masonic group".

Royal Shamrock Lodge, Waterford Address: 1 Waterside Sq., Waterside, Waterford Constituted: 1795 Originally warranted as 817 in 1795; exchanged for 32 in 1843.

snap.waterfordcoco.ie/collections/ejournals/100704/100704... ..Captain Todd had a daughter Eliza, and when she was five years old (in 1881), her mother died (aged 31), and Eliza was sent from her home in Wales to London. Meanwhile her grandfather, Captain W.L. Pearn had retired in Waterford, bought a pub at the top of Exchange Street (on the right hand side), and lived at No.7 William Street. Eliza Todd came to Waterford and worked at Poole's Photographic shop on the Quay'

Fred Dean Snr. According to the marriage record, her father was George Todd.

Sharon Corbet Here are the Preans and Todds in the 1901 Census in William Street.

The roundy yoke is a bit of cavalry armour (or derived from it, anyway - it's a gorget), and the horn suggests scouts, huntsmen or the postal service.

I believe This belt plate and gorget are still in the National Museum, rare pieces indeed I would say.

This is a nice piece on the Legion Irlandaise, militaryheritage.com/irish.htm

The story goes that the King of France found the Irish brigade very unruly with their drinking and fighting. He complained to their commanding office by saying " the Irish troops are more troublesome than the rest of the French army"

The reply from the commanding office was " yes your majesty, the enemy say the same"

here you go for the dating I suppose? query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9400E2D91F31E233A...

No, that was 1912. This is Wednesday, October 20, 1913, and William Howard Taft, who had left the Presidency on March 4 (when Woodrow Wilson, former president of Princeton University, succeeded him) is now Kent Professor of Law at Yale University (a post he will fill until 1921). He has returned to Princeton University to dedicate the Cleveland Tower, a memorial to former U. S. President Grover Cleveland, who had made his home in Princeton, N.J., from 1897 (when his second Presidential term ended) until his death in 1908. Taft will conclude the dedication ceremony by delivering an oration on the life and career of Grover Cleveland. The tower is visible behind this group of scholars, which includes John Grier Hibben (1861-1933), who was president of Princeton University from 1912 to 1932.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grier_Hibben

A damaged Bain/LOC photograph of the Cleveland Memorial Tower:

wow! the LOC is lucky to have you checking and correcting, Sir Wystan. So they met twice in consecutive years. how interesting. The world was so much smaller.