Thom's Irish Who's Who/Johnstone, Evelyn Wentworth Hope-

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3187961Thom's Irish Who's Who — Johnstone, Evelyn Wentworth Hope-


JOHNSTONE, Evelyn Wentworth HOPE-, M.F.H.; was Master Tara Harriers, 1901-4, and 1908-9; Master Westmeath Hounds from 1913; won the National Hunt Cup with Ballyboggan, 1917; Irish Grand National and Prince of Wales Plate, 1918; second in the Grand National, 1919; won the Championship of the Dublin Horse Show, together with three cups three successive years with Babe of the Woods. Recns.: hunting, shooting, fishing and racing; son of Capt. Percy Hope-Johnstone, late 60th Rifles; b. 9th May, 1879; m., 1st, 1905, Eileen (d., 1909), dau. of G. V. Briscoe; 2nd, 1916, Mario Eleanor, dau. of late Compton Charles Domvile, late R.N. Res.: Raehills, Lockerbie, N.B., and Clonhugh, Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath. Club: Sackville Street, Dublin.