KAVANAGH

Arthur Mac mor rough (3 son of Thomas Kavanagh 1767–1837, M.P. for co. Carlow). b. Borris house, co. Carlow 25 March 1831 with only the rudiments of arms and legs; became a good driver, rider, angler, shooter, draughtsman and painter; acted as a volunteer scout during Smith O’Brien’s rebellion 1848; went to India by way of Ru ia and Persia 1849–51; succeeded to the family estates 1854 on death of his brother Charles Kavanagh; rebuilt villages of Borris and Ballyrag get 1855–6; subsidised and managed railway from Borris to Bagnalstown 1858 etc.; sheriff of Kilkenny 1856 and of Carlow 1857; M.P. for co. Wexford 1866–68; M.P. co. Carlow 1868–80; lord lieut. of co. Carlow 1880; initiated the Irish land committee 1882, founded the Land corporation 1883; P.C. Ireland 1886; author of The cruise of the R.Y.S. Eva. Dublin 1865. d. 19 Ted worth sq. Chelsea, London 25 Dec. 1889. bur. in ruined church on Bally cop i gan, Borris. Sarah L. Steele’s A. M. Kavanagh (1891), portrait ; Blackwood’s Mag. March 1891 pp. 429–44; The Lancet 14 March 1891 p. 608.