WATERFORD CURSE.
Untimely Death of Seventh Marquess. SHOOTING FATALITY. (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Marquess of Waterford was killed in a shooting accident. He left his home Portlaw, County Waterford, alone at daybreak to shoot rabbits. It is impossible to say how the fatality happened. It is presumed, however, that the Marquess slipped on the stone floor in the gunroom, discharging the rifle. At the inquest a doctor gave evidence that the position of the wound proved that he could not have touched the trigger. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The famous Waterford curse doomed seven heads of the Beresford family to untimely deaths. The sixth marquess was accidentally drowned in 1911. He was the seventh head, and it was then declared that the curse was lifted.
John C. de la Poor Bcresford, seventh Marquess of Waterford, was born on January 6, 1901, 6on of the sixth marquess. He succeeded his father in 1911. He was educated at Winchester College and Cambridge. He was formerly a lieutenant, Royal Horse Guards, but resigned his commission in 1927. Ho married in 1930 the youngest daughter of the fifth Marquess of Lansdowne. The heir to the title is their son, the Earl of Tyrone.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 228, 26 September 1934, Page 7
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206WATERFORD CURSE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 228, 26 September 1934, Page 7
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