A TWO HANDLED TROPHY CUP, DUBLIN 1777/8, John Laughlin, of ogee baluster shape with leaf capped scroll handles, on domed foot, inscribed The R t. Honble Thos Connolly to the City of Londonderry To be run for Augt 1778 won by Viper, belonging to Edw d Smyth of Lisburn Esq r and with a large contemporary coat of arms of the Smyth family. Height 32cms Weight 72 ozs in a mahogany case, probably original The donor of this cup was Thomas Connolly of Castletown [1738-1803]. Always known, for good reason, as ''Squire Connolly'' he was the ultimate heir of the great ''Speaker'' Connolly. Possessed of extensive property and political position, by birth he was connected to the Whig establishment, his mother being Lady Anne Wentworth and his wife, to Lady Louisa Lennox, which brought him into contact with Charles James Fox and the Devonshire House set. His political base was the North West where he controlled five parliamentary seats. At Newtown Limavady he was in bitter dispute with the ''claim jumping of'' his cousin, Henry Conyngham and he sold the Borrough to Lord Londonderry for ?12,000. A keen huntsman (Master of the Kildare Hounds) he provided prize money and sponsorship for race meetings. In June 1780 the Lord Lieutenant, Buckinghamshire, complained that Connolly ''proposes to be present at the Derry Races as usual'' - (and therefore could not attend to business in Dublin). Squire Tom was amiable, conservative and politically mal adroit with ''a great appetite for politics but a very poor digestion''. If his intellect had matched his position perhaps the catastrophe of 1798 and the ensuing Union (which Connolly supported) could have been mitigated. He left his own epitaph, to which this cup is witness ''I have no occasion to save money having no children and I flatter myself that the money I have spent annually was rationally employed by living, not extravagantly, but like a gentleman''. A TWO HANDLED TROPHY CUP, DUBLIN 1777/8, John Laughlin, of ogee baluster shape with leaf capped scroll handles, on domed foot, inscribed The R t. Honble Thos Connolly to the City of Londonderry To be run for Augt 1778 won by Viper, belonging to Edw d Smyth of Lisburn Esq r and with a large contemporary coat of arms of the Smyth family. Height 32cms Weight 72 ozs in a mahogany case, probably original The donor of this cup was Thomas Connolly of Castletown [1738-1803]. Always known, for good reason, as ''Squire Connolly'' he was the ultimate heir of the great ''Speaker'' Connolly. Possessed of extensive property and political position, by birth he was connected to the Whig establishment, his mother being Lady Anne Wentworth and his wife, to Lady Louisa Lennox, which brought him into contact with Charles James Fox and the Devonshire House set. His political base was the North West where he controlled five parliamentary seats. At Newtown Limavady he was in bitter dispute with the ''claim jumping of'' his cousin, Henry Conyngham and he sold the Borrough to Lord Londonderry for ?12,000. A keen huntsman (Master of the Kildare Hounds) he provided prize money and sponsorship for race meetings. In June 1780 the Lord Lieutenant, Buckinghamshire, complained that Connolly ''proposes to be present at the Derry Races as usual'' - (and therefore could not attend to business in Dublin). Squire Tom was amiable, conservative and politically mal adroit with ''a great appetite for politics but a very poor digestion''. If his intellect had matched his position perhaps the catastrophe of 1798 and the ensuing Union (which Connolly supported) could have been mitigated. He left his own epitaph, to which this cup is witness ''I have no occasion to save money having no children and I flatter myself that the money I have spent annually was rationally employed by living, not extravagantly, but like a gentleman''.
A TWO HANDLED TROPHY CUP, DUBLIN 1777/8, John Laughlin, of ogee baluster shape with leaf capped scroll handles, on domed foot, inscribed The R t. Honble Thos Connolly to the City of Londonderry To be run for Augt 1778 won by Viper, belonging to Edw d Smyth of Lisburn Esq r and with a large contemporary coat of arms of the Smyth family. Height 32cms Weight 72 ozs in a mahogany case, probably original The donor of this cup was Thomas Connolly of Castletown [1738-1803]. Always known, for good reason, as ''Squire Connolly'' he was the ultimate heir of the great ''Speaker'' Connolly. Possessed of extensive property and political position, by birth he was connected to the Whig establishment, his mother being Lady Anne Wentworth and his wife, to Lady Louisa Lennox, which brought him into contact with Charles James Fox and the Devonshire House set. His political base was the North West where he controlled five parliamentary seats. At Newtown Limavady he was in bitter dispute with the ''claim jumping of'' his cousin, Henry Conyngham and he sold the Borrough to Lord Londonderry for ?12,000. A keen huntsman (Master of the Kildare Hounds) he provided prize money and sponsorship for race meetings. In June 1780 the Lord Lieutenant, Buckinghamshire, complained that Connolly ''proposes to be present at the Derry Races as usual'' - (and therefore could not attend to business in Dublin). Squire Tom was amiable, conservative and politically mal adroit with ''a great appetite for politics but a very poor digestion''. If his intellect had matched his position perhaps the catastrophe of 1798 and the ensuing Union (which Connolly supported) could have been mitigated. He left his own epitaph, to which this cup is witness ''I have no occasion to save money having no children and I flatter myself that the money I have spent annually was rationally employed by living, not extravagantly, but like a gentleman''. A TWO HANDLED TROPHY CUP, DUBLIN 1777/8, John Laughlin, of ogee baluster shape with leaf capped scroll handles, on domed foot, inscribed The R t. Honble Thos Connolly to the City of Londonderry To be run for Augt 1778 won by Viper, belonging to Edw d Smyth of Lisburn Esq r and with a large contemporary coat of arms of the Smyth family. Height 32cms Weight 72 ozs in a mahogany case, probably original The donor of this cup was Thomas Connolly of Castletown [1738-1803]. Always known, for good reason, as ''Squire Connolly'' he was the ultimate heir of the great ''Speaker'' Connolly. Possessed of extensive property and political position, by birth he was connected to the Whig establishment, his mother being Lady Anne Wentworth and his wife, to Lady Louisa Lennox, which brought him into contact with Charles James Fox and the Devonshire House set. His political base was the North West where he controlled five parliamentary seats. At Newtown Limavady he was in bitter dispute with the ''claim jumping of'' his cousin, Henry Conyngham and he sold the Borrough to Lord Londonderry for ?12,000. A keen huntsman (Master of the Kildare Hounds) he provided prize money and sponsorship for race meetings. In June 1780 the Lord Lieutenant, Buckinghamshire, complained that Connolly ''proposes to be present at the Derry Races as usual'' - (and therefore could not attend to business in Dublin). Squire Tom was amiable, conservative and politically mal adroit with ''a great appetite for politics but a very poor digestion''. If his intellect had matched his position perhaps the catastrophe of 1798 and the ensuing Union (which Connolly supported) could have been mitigated. He left his own epitaph, to which this cup is witness ''I have no occasion to save money having no children and I flatter myself that the money I have spent annually was rationally employed by living, not extravagantly, but like a gentleman''.
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