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32 1916 PASSESA collection of three passes issued to William Brady, May 1916, two for
travel between Kingstown and Blackrock or Dublin, both with stamp of
North Midland Division HQ and stamped signature of Major Rhodes; and
a handwritten note from the same officer to O.C. Westminster Dragoons,
Newbridge, asking him to interview Brady with reference to a pair of field
glasses. (4)
€ 120 - 180
33 A MID 19TH CENTURY PERMIT TO PASS THROUGH THE GROUNDSOF 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 commis-
sioned 2nd Lieutenant 1837 and seeing active service in the 3rd Kaffir War 1851-53, the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8,
2nd Afghan War, 1879-80.
€ 80 - 120