The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-17

| rider, and a good shot; several brilliant
/ speeches and clever volumes attest his
/ genius, and the family of stalwart sons
and healthy daughters he left behind
/ promises to Derpetuate his name While
/ 1t shows no sign of inheriting his
physical failings. Surely such a re-
| markable man deserves some token of
/ posthumou5 recognition at the hands
/ of hi CONFERENCE.-The more especially
! as he was the lineal representative of
/ the ancient kings of Leinster, and di-
I rectly descended from Art Mac Muir
rogh Kavanagh, who. who, in the 18th
and 18th centuries, successfully battled
against England at the head Of the
1 United Irish clans.
MONUMENT TO HIS MEMORY.
The movement to erect a suitable
monument to Mac Murrogh Kayanagh
belongs to no political party or relig-
iouS sect. 1t numbers among its sup
! porterS men of every shade Of opinion,
many of whom were Kavanagh's OPP
ponents in parliament or elsewhere;
| for though a stdnch Conservative and
antf-home ruler, KaVanagh was a
! good landlord and a generous foe.
Above all, he was one of the pioneers,
is not the very first. the decry Eng
lands unjust taxation of Ireland,
thereby starting the anti-taxation
lord, home ruler and UnioniSt, rich and
poor are now practically united. At
ter a great deal of discussion it has
been decided to choose the bust as the
form in which the late king of Lem
sters" rugged features are to be per-
petuated. The decision was widely
combatted by admirers, who claimed
that Kavanagh himself never shrank
from letting the world observe his I'M
Int I1o IN
have been the first to condemn the
evasion of a bust The feeling of ma
tural delicacy prevailed, however, and
accordingly the deceased privy coun-
ciIor's armless and legless state viii
not be obtruded upon the publicr The
commission for the monument will be
placed at once with some Well-known
British sculptor, and the bust, when
completed. will doubtless be placed on
a pedestal in one OF the Dublin streets
A DESCENDANT OF KINGS.
The extraordinary cripple who is thus
recalled to pubic notice just ten years
after his death, was born March %,
| 1881 at Boris house, county Carlow,
| Ireland, being the youngest son of
! Thomas Kavanagh of Boris, titular
King of Leinster." His mother was
Lady Harriet French, great allnt Of
! the present GGdTI OIL 0IduCdIlS NDCtICI
| known as the husband of Belle BiltOn).
! and daughter of that Lord Clancarty
who was minister to Brussels during
| the campaign of Waterloo. Younger
| sons have much the same standing Cor
! want of standfng) in Ireland as they
| have throughout the rest of the British
! Isles. and the armless. legless third
| child seemed a particularly hopeless
! case Indeed there is a very strong
PC fysf h
superstitiouS family nurse, believing
| him a chdngeling. was DESTROYS Of
smothering the helpless baby between
two feather beds. Indeed, the writer
! has heard Mr.. Kayanagh tell this
story himself. although with a great
! deal of JUNCTION.
But Kavanagh. although a portion
! less younger son and a cripple. was
! possessed of a mother whose sound.
| her child gave him his first impetus
( toward success. Lady Harriet Kava-
nagh secured for her son a private
/ tutor and when he was able to travel
| intelligently, took him for long rambles
| over Europe. The travelling virus
planted in the boys blood throve quick
| ly and in 1S49 he started for the far east
under the care of his more fortunate
! elder brother. In India they shot tigers
E-Kavanagh being, as has been here
! tofore stated, an excellent wielder of
rife or fowling- piece In India, also,
the lucky elder brother died, and the
cripple FASTENED home to Ireland, only
to find that his other brother Charles,
! the iuheritor of the great Kavanagh
! estates, had also departed this life.
Thus the "despised homuncuIus," as
he bitterly described himself, became
| heir to many broad acres, and the
smoldering fires of ambition began to
blaze up within him. In 1885 he mar
ried his cousin. Frances Leathley,
daughter of the rector of Termon-
fecley, and during the years 1856 and
! 1857 he served as high Sheriff of the
counties of Kilkenny and Carlow. In
1866 he was triumphantly returned as
member of parliament for Wexford
county. From 1868 to 1880 he repre-
scented Carlow at Westminster, becom-
ing lord lieutenant of Carlow in 1886
and a privy councillor in 1866
PERFORMED MANY FEATS.
Kavanagh never used artificial limbs
Of any sort His arm stumps We're
fitted with screw plates, into which
hooks or (for use at table, forks and
spoons could be fixed Through patient
striving he acquired wonderful dexter
ity, and the writer has seen him toss
off glass Of wine without help by
pressing the glass stem betweene his
right stump and his breast, and lift
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