A MID 19TH CENTURY PERMIT TO PASS THROUGH THE GROUNDS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL KILMAINHAM. Printed red text on buff card, with manuscript additions, permitting "The Bearer to pass through the...

A MID 19TH CENTURY PERMIT TO PASS THROUGH THE GROUNDS OF THE ROYAL HOSPITAL KILMAINHAM. Printed red text on buff card, with manuscript additions, permitting "The Bearer to pass through the Western Avenue of the Royal Hospital" by "car or otherwise", dated 1st December 1871, numbered 365, with red wax Adjutant General's seal and signed by Colonel J.M. Primrose as D.A.G. (Deputy Adjutant General), folded and scuffed from continued usage.

 

Robert Tydd, of Floraville, Inchicore, Dublin, assistant paymaster of the Great Southern and Western Railway, was the son of Mr. Benjamin B. Tydd, paymaster and superintendent of the same railway. This pass was issued during the troubled period following the abortive Fenian rising of 1867, undoubtedly with the intention of providing Robert Tydd, whose job involved the supervision of large sums of money, with a safe corridor to pass through in a "car" (horse and carriage) from the railway yards at Kingsbridge (now Heuston) station to his home in Inchicore (later, in 1882, the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and his Under-Secretary, Thomas Burke, were murdered by members of the Irish National Invincibles whilst driving in a carriage through the Phoenix Park, just across the Liffey from the Royal Hospital). Robert Tydd's father, Benjamin Bradshaw Tydd, born 1815, a native of Ballymackey, Co. Tipperary, had initially seen service for 7 years as a policeman in the Irish Constabulary, before transferring to the Dublin Metropolitan Police shortly after that force was established in 1836. Appointed Constable with the D.M.P. on 19th May 1838, he was dismissed from the force 5 days later. Lot accompanied by full biographical and service details of Colonel (later General) James Maurice Primrose, C.S.I., who had a distinguished military career, being first commissioned 2nd Lieutenant 1837 and seeing active service in the 3rd Kaffir War 1851-53, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8, 2nd Afghan War, 1879-80.

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