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THE LIMBLESS WONDER
He was
a reckless huntsman, artist, yachtsman.... He shot tigers.... He rode a horse from Sweden to India... He became a Member of Parliament
T
ONE OF THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES
Was
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By JOHN MURDOCH·
re horseman.
rls,
Once,
And he became the
strapped
011 10
Weltpon
man,
beneath his left
Almost Drowned
Brm
Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh Hyed one of the most astonishing Ilves of the 19th century.
Arthur, unconscious
and
During, this three years' wan- With only 30 shillings left dering he suffered all kinds of Arthur Kavanugh took a job at
hardship and ilinges. He experi- Aurangabad with the survey enood bitter winter weather, departmem of the Poonah_Dis- semi-strvation, infense desert trict under the East India Com- heat and infection that would pony, carrying urgent dispatches have broken stronger constitu- on horreback. His salary was tions than hie
£400 per annum.
brother Arthur On
In October, 1849, the party After a year he was recalled reached Teheran without incl to Ireland. His elder dent. At the end of November Charles had died andi they went out hunting with succeeded to the estates, Malichuss Mirza. a Parslan March 15, 1855, he married his Prince, who was the son of Fat cousin, Frances Mary Leathley, All Shah. Kavanagh was re- It was a very quiet wedding fo covering from a mild illness and Dublin, at the home of his aunt. they celebrated by dthing with They had four sons and three The Prince He recorded in his daughters. Mary: "Champagne dowed like water."
All
דן
Lost His Seat
Anno
1860 he was returned 14 Member of Parliament for
of 759
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Ills first task was to replan andi rebuild the village of Bor- HERE
The following day he was left rs. He opened a branch railway joicing when a third most dashing and daring rider stump and managed to press the
behind with a fever while the fine betwon the villago and in the trist midland
countiel, wigger with the other. He son was born to Lady rarely missing a meeting of any
others went on to Tillis, His re- nearby Ballyraggul, became a good ungler, fishing
Wie slow. On cavery Harriet Margaret Le Poer if the local hunts.
New Boleyn's girlhood home. By pressing from a boat or from horseback.
Day, 1850, he got up too his broad shoulders
fishing of forward wife
He once węźl deep-sea Trench, second
soon and the following morning Thomas Kavanagh, M.P., Kavanagh was able to grip the in the Arctic Circle. He became
taken unconscious to the reins with his two armi stomp. competent draughtsman and descendant of the Kings of He was
his painter and a fearless
IN yachte alongside. He was in danger of Prince's house.
being crushed to death,
quite He opened his eyes to find Leinster, at the ancestral horse's back in a kind of saddle
apart from drowning. None of himself ensconced with every County Wexford with a ma- home of Burris, County chair.
his party know what had bap bury, in the Prince's hatem, jority
votes. In the Carlow, on March 25, 1881.
when he was riding
pened, but an Arab in
two the He was nursed by an old, black- General Election Yet the young couple alone a deer park near Bor-
river bank was watching, dived slave who became quite devoted later he was returned unoppos Kavanagh's horse
with hiz bolled, HEN only 15 years old, and in and succeeded in reaching to him. He spent his convales- cd,
kingman, Mr hud been counting the
W as part of his private edu- the drowning man and getting cence in the ladies' apartments, mice lus maiden speech in the carecred around at a crazy gul-
Bruen, for
Ho County Carlow. days until the baby's ar kop while the limbless rider did cution, he set out on a formuld him
#d
back rival. They were socially, his best to rein in the frightened able tour of parts of Africa and
be
House of Commons the follow- beast. When his strength had
the Middle East. Ho must have
Opposition ing April from the elite. They were
lleved dead, was eventually to- given out, he set almost
the been one of the most-travelled vived by artificial respiration.
he set out benches during the second read- proad landed gentry owning horse at a seemingly imposeible Irishmen of his generation. He Kavanagh had been home
on his Journey ing of the Poor Law (Ireland) vast, estates In Southern obstacle tall brick wall sur- covered vast distances in his
only for a few months before Crossing "Old Woman's Foss," Amendment BUL Ireland. For
than rounding
ไก the Borris estate. As chair on a horse's back, or car-
he started out on an even more the highest, in Persia, his horse he
girth rlod by servants. did so the sackile
ambitious trip with his eldest Jack stumbled twice--and the Lord the M eight centuries
but in the same year MacMurrough
clipped and he was thrown off Kavanaghs to his head. He was
While traveling in the Middle brother Thomas and his tutor, mule ahead, carrying the can- Carlow, found Enst he was almost drowned in the Reverend David Wood teen equipment in two great lost his scat in the House. It. had played a dominant role by a member of his family the Nile. All the other members
record that he was the from Sweden to India on horse boxon, strusic o protruding rock is on in Irish history. it Was some hours later, lying uncon- of his party were below in their back, travelling through Finland, and disappeared over the side only Member at Parliament who cabins; he sat on the deck. The fussia, down the Volga, over to of the precipice to crash bun over voted in the House without, Dermot MacMurrough who scion on the ground.
Sea into the Craplan
up from his seat and Persia, dreds of font below, boat rolled suddenly and Arthur
getting invited Strongbow and the
WatCT
They
Jobby into the
visited Nineveh, Bag- going into the division across the Persian Gulf and was thrown Normans to Ireland,
the between
dad, climbed the it and another boat eventually to Bombay.
Tower of with the other Members. Babai,
He finally taking "ship for
died after nearly three Bombay.
Christmas where they arrived years of lines on
Kavanagh Duy, 1889, and was buried in 1851. there took up tiger shooting the Hiir Tuined church on this
of the
more
When the infant son arrived at Barrls House his mures la reperies to have said: "Ah the poor little thing. God will take it und it will be all for the best."
BUT
Not fulfilled
QUT this prophecy was, forlu- nately, not fulfilled. And Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh was spared to live one of the most astonishing lives of any man in the 10th century.
Ho
did this with a courage and
a
He trained himself to be good shot. Using a gun without a trigger Guard, he held
THE LONE
OF
aboard the boat, His Wedding
shnin
N January 15 ON
PRINCESSES
DOLPHIN SQUARE
By ANTONY TERRY
War II by the Nazia after the has told me so many wonderful) Langenburg, W.
things of the good times we are, Germany, attempt on Eiter's life.
"Falber and mother are just going to have there,
bit wee
old-fashioned," "I am going to work hard în London and I mean to Icarn a professiod which people do not
Setermination that has probably | WO excited Princesses, nover been equalled.
and *tellect. And, although where
TWO
f for whom their uncle, Princess Beatrix told me in an He was born without limbs... Yet he lived 50 highly eventful the Duke of Edinburgh, has exclusive interview. "They are and tempestuous years. He be furnished a flat in Dolphin anxious we should avoid public- come a genius at improvication Square (luxury block of ly while in Britain.
"They do not think the visit developed a brilliant in-
In-apartments on the Thames to London of two your his arms should have been ho Embankment talked to me should interest
"We shall take their advice two little stumpe a about their plans for living or in London.
try and attract as little attention as possible. After all, And if charm and ap. we're going to work... not
had only
few inches long, and no legs at alone in London.
all, he certainly had no in-
fariority complex.
He was proud, of his physical
acblevements, of
and
anyone,
a sensitive pearance are anything to just to have fun. Both of us
nature and had a highly adven- go by, 19-year-old Princess want to perfect our Engilah,"
turous spirit. The only and Beatrix of Hohenlohe-
thing about film, was his deep blue øyne. nagh had brood.
זיי
with girls
qually associate the restoration of valuable ad
paintings.
subject in Munich for the post I have been studying this!
year and I'm hoping to learn a lot in London
Princess Beatrix told me: "I was at Windsor for a poner et a finishing school in 1954. I learnt dressmaking while I was there, and this time I mean to take mN fashion designing seriously.
"My" fret ambition is to at- tend a term at the Royal School
Through, his Dick and
tiné of Hesse, will be the turnishings are from Windsor Learn the "idrom.
designing
they bay Langenburg and her cousin, In London they will live un- of Art Then Tabave plane to Arthur MacNTUITough Kava- 22-year-old Princess Chris chaperoned in the Bat, The join's Lotion dastian school to
broad
brow most popular girls in Lon- Castle. The Duke of Edinburghs Busines efforia heddon with Mayfair's eligible personally, supervised their than most people bachelors.
Ana, Brodigiosa things) blekand
with
Timbe
Princess Christine, whose stallation in the dark soute leastola direc, Her high heals drummed on plans a trip, cucitad tattoo (ón). The parquet :- în Salem
prac for in But before they : Leav the floor two Princess, Boatrix
himself to
on January 5,
1880 he was appointed Lieutenant of County
time strapped Into the Bally-copigan. howdah on an elephant's back. But the name livce on...One. In December his brother Tom of his descendants is Colonel was taken ill with consumption, Sir Dermot McMurrough Kava- so he and the tutor sorted for nagh, a Crown Equerry in the Australia and a more temperate Royal Household. climate, But Tom died in Java.
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