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Wrm deep respect and affectionate memories or ms lordsmp's Pansxmmcv AT st. Edmund's IN the happy Lus'muu 1882 - 1887.

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Tom Griffin was a quiet man, who dwelt in the "Hundreds" at Brentford. My personal memories of Tom are fast fading. I seem to recall a tall stooped man of forty, with a dark, oval, priest-like face. But he passed out of my life before I reached my teens; also my people dwelt some miles from the historic town of the "Three Kings," and of the battle in the Civil War. Suffice it that I now know him intimately from talks with the "old neighbours," of whom I was privileged to give some account to readers of a book called "The Kings and the Cats." They were Famine emigrants, mostly from Munster, and settled towards 1851 in Brentford, Isleworth, and Mortlake - orchard-towns in the Valley of the Thames.

Tom was a "quiet" man. Every Corkonian of his day pronounced the word in one syllable - "quite." Tom Griffin went further. He could not manage the sound of qu, but made a k of it, as do the French. Thus Tom, in his vernacular, was a "kite" man. He was also one in reality - a tranquil, easy-going, pious bachelor, who avoided disturbances with his neighbours, as the devil dodges holy water.

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