[Leica] Unusual clock

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Hmmm, Keeping clocks and statues around can prompt a better understanding
of history and cultural past that may or may not agree with current
sensibilities.

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 7:18?PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> This clock is in the Kildare Street Club in Dublin where I was at the
> AGM dinner of my wine society last month. Enjoyable, as it included a
> flight of three '05 Pomerols and an exquisite '09 d'Yquem.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/NS+Clock+KSC.jpg.html
>
> The background to the peculiar clock is the club was used heavily by the
> old ascendancy who were mainly protestant Unionists, and all were men.
> The clock, probably made in France, commemorates the 200th anniversary
> of King William III's victory in the Battle of the Boyne of 1690, and
> only has the number 12 marked on it. It does have the motto of the
> Unionists on its face however. So look at the larger size. Over here,
> we're tempted to shout the slogan across the pond to the Tariffman.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kildare_Street_Club
>
> Jayanand, you may be interested in the fact that Lord Hugh Gough of the
> Madras Army and Anglo-Sikh War fame was a member of the Club. It was
> through his efforts in the war that Jammu and Kashmir came under British
> rule and then, after the 1947 Partition, became mostly part of India. A
> controversial figure in both India and China, Gough's Wikipedia page has
> an interesting 1850 daguerreotype. Over here, there was a very good
> equestrian statue by John Henry Foley of Gough on a plinth in the
> Phoenix Park in the middle of Dublin. It survived until the mid 1950s,
> but looking at a statue of a Field Marshal of the old occupying army was
> too much for Irish people of a certain sensibility and it was blown up
> in 1957. Repaired, it is now in the garden of an English estate.
>
> Douglas
>
>
>
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