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The
following documents were donated to the
Carlow website by Kate Taylor (Coral M P
Taylor, MA Oxon, FSA, Hon Lay Canon
Wakefield Cathedral. Yorkshire.).
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They were
discovered among my late aunt's papers.
She was a Granddaughter of William
Parsons of Carlow. I am the Great
Granddaughter of William Parsons.
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Dudley St Leger
Hill's sister, Lavinia, married one
William Parsons of Carlow, One of their
children, Edward Parsons, married Mary
Ann McKnight. Among the children of
Edward and Mary was Dawson Parsons, born
27 June 1868. Dawson was Margaret
Parsons's father and my grandfather so I
suppose Dudley Hill (father of both
Dudley St Leger and Lavinia) was my
Great-great-grandfather.
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Above letter from Kate Taylor
(The date
20th December, 1913 was
probably a typing error as we think it
should read 1813)
At a Meeting of the Noblemen and Gentlemen of
the County and Town of Carlow, 20th December,
1913, the following address was unanimously
voted to
Sir Dudley St. Leger Hill,
Knight of the Royal Military Order of the Tower
and Sword, Knight Companion of the most
Honourable Military Order of the Bath,
Lieutenant Colonel in the Army, and Colonel in
the Portuguese Service:, On his return to his
native Town, from the Peninsula, who presented
him at the same time with a very handsome
Military Sword and two valuable Silver Cups; the
whole highly ornamented, emblematical with
corresponding devices.
Sir, It has seldom happened, since the Glorious
days of the Immortal Wolfe, that the Veteran
Soldier could be recognised in an Officer of
your Years:, It Is, therefore, with pecular
gratification we hail your Return to your native
Country, covered, as you are, with honourable
Wounds, and loadod as you also are, with the
Plaudits of the Army In which you have so often
signalized yourself.
The Country of your birth has seen with Pride
and Admiration, repeated Records of your
Valourous Deeds, from the unerring pens of a
Wellington, a Beresford, and a Graham; shall we
then, your Townsmen and Friends, view with
apathy, or pass over in silence, those Heroic
Exploits which have not only recommended you to
distinguished marks of our Sovereign's favour,
but entwined a never-fading wreath of Laurel
around your youthful brow? No, Sir, we are
desirous of proclaiming
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to your followers In Arms, that while we
contemplate with emotions of exaltation your
Service as a Soldier, we are no lees acutely
alive to your high character as a Gentleman, and
your Virtues as a Citizen. Accept then, Sir,
this Sword, as a pledge of the interest we take
in our Country's cause, identified as it is with
your individual Glory, and from a consciousness
that we cannot confide it into better hands for
the protection of the Honour and Dignity of our
Sovereign, and for the Defence and Support of
our national Rights.
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Signed on behalf of the Committee,
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THOMAS GURLY,
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Chairman.
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