THE LATE GENERAL WAUCHOPE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVIII, Issue 18, 3 May 1900, Page 27

THE LATE GENERAL WAUCHOPE.

The war is affecting Ireland socially a irreat deal (cays M.A.P.). The officer always plays a large part in the social life of Ireland, and many of the foremost figures of the war had become familiar to many Irish towns before they went out to the South African veldt. I narrated how General Wauehope was half Irish through his mother ; how an ancestor of his had taken a prominent and honorable part in the old siege of limerick under Sarsfield, and how poor Wauehope himself was deeply interested during a period of service in Limerick in following up the traces of his ancestor. A further proof of the oloseness of his association with Ireland is given, I believe, by the terms of his will. He has left his estates in Midlothian and Roxburghshire to Mrs. Wauohope for life, or during widowhood. On her death or re-marriage the property goes to Mr. Frederic Rosmore Wauehope Eveliegh-de-Moleyns, son of Lord and Lady Ventry— in other words, General Wauchope's Irish nephew. Lady Ventry, as everybody knows, was his eister.