LORD ROSSMORE.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2205, 21 March 1881, Page 3

LORD ROSSMORE.

" Baily" received by this last mail gives its readers the portrait of Lord Rossmore, and gives the following acoount of that popular nobleman, which will probably be read with pleasure by some of his connections in Canterbury : The lineaments that our artist has so happily reproduced on the opposite pago will be familiar to many "Baily" readers, military and civilian, sporting and non-sporting, at places where good fellows most do congregate, among the loyal Orangemen of the north of Ireland, on tented fields where the battle-cry is " six to four," in cosy London clubs, among happy lotos-eaters, in haunts of the gay world, where bright eyes and lithe forms come to the front —in all and each of these Lord Rosemore is a well-known and welcome guest. The Westenras were originally Dutch, their ancestors, the Van Wassenaera, being of great antiquity in Holland ; and among the quarterings of the Bossmore shield will be found the Sea-Horse, in roference to the valour of an ancestor, " who during the Duke of Alva's oampaign was aotively employed against the enemy, and undertook to swim across an arm of the sea with important intelligence to his besieged countrymen." They settled in Ireland in the reien of Charles 11., soon acquired estates in the King's County, and became possessed of the Cunniughame property, as heirs of the first Lord Bossmore, in the County Monaghan. The subjeot of our presant sketch, Derrick Warner William Westenra, fifth Baron Rossmore, was born in 1853, and succeeded to the title in 1874, on the lamented deaih of his elder brother, who, it will be remembered, was killed from the effects of a fall when riding in the Military B eopleehases at Windsor that year. The present Lord was educated at Rugby, and soon got his commission in the 9th Lancers, from which regiment he exchanged into the Ist Life Guards at his brother's death. He is every inoh a sportsman, but if he likes one branch of sport more than another, perhaps it h when ho takes gun or rifle in his hands. He is Master of the Monaghan Harriers, and he is very fond of having a jumper or two in Murphy's stables at the Ourragh. His ventures in that and the flit line have not been very successful, and tho " green and orange hoops" do not often first catch the judge's eye. Still, he is returned, we see, as the winner of three rases this jenc ; and with a small stud we suppose ho may bo congratulated oven on that. Ho is too t;-;io a pportsman, however, to rail at fortune—and.the good time will oome.

For the rout, Lord .Roesmoro is a resident and good landlord in. "the distressful country ;" he is Q-randMaßterof the Orangemen of Monaghan, and as we write is at his post of duty, Kosamore P=»rk. The Westenras, as they were brave and loyal in the oountry of their birth, have also brought those qualities to tho oountry of their adoption. The honour of the same Is in safe hands.