Thom's Irish Who's Who/Pope-Hennessy, Colonel Ladislaus Herbert Richard

POPE-HENNESSY, Colonel Ladislaus Herbert Richard, D.S.O. (1908); Chevalier, Legion of Honour. Educ. Beaumont; joined Oxford Light Infantry, 1895; West African Frontier Force, 1898-99; King's African Rifles. 1899-1908; Commandant of 4th King's African Rifles, 1906; Staff Officer to I.G.K.A. Rifles, 1907-1908: Lieut.-Col. 2nd Batt. Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, 1919-20; A.A.G. War Office, 1920; served West Africa, 1908; East Africa, 1900-1901, operations against Ogaden Somalis; Somaliland, 1902-3; East Africa, 1905; operations in Sotik; operations in Nadi, 1905-6: operations in Somaliland, 1909-1910: European War, 1914-18; commanded 1st Oxf. and Bucks Light Infantry in Mesopotamia, 1916-17 G.S.O. (1st Grade) 3rd Indian Div., 1917; Brig.-Gen., Gen. Staff, 1st Indian Army Corps, 1917-18. Pubns.: The Irish Dominion, a method of approach to a settlement; articles on military subjects to the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review; translator of Colin; Transformations of War. Recns.: fishing, shooting, and gardening; eldest son of late Sir John Pope-Hennessy, K.C.M.G., M.P., of Rostellan Castle, Co. Cork, and Catherine, only dau. of late Sir Hugh Low, G.C.M.G.; b. 1875: m. 1910, Dame Una Constance, D.B.E., only dau. of late Sir Arthur Birch, K.C.M.G., and has issue two sons. Res.: 3 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, London, N.W.1 Clubs: Brooks's, Burlington Fine Arts, London; Cork County.