There were some illustrious guests at the post-Waterford Hunt Ball meet at Whitfield Court, Kilmeaden, in January, 1932.

The Baring brothers were members of the famous German-English merchant-banking family. Robin, 17 in this picture, became a decorated military officer in WWII. He died aged 80 in 1994, a year before the collapse of Barings Bank in London due to the speculative Singapore dealings of employee Nick Leeson.

Mark was aged 15 here and, having become an army major, passed away in 1988, just four years after his mother, Lady Gweneth Ponsonby of Bessborough, who, at 96, outlived her first husband, Windham Baring, by fully 62 years, and her second, Colonel Ralph Cavendish, a veteran of two wars, by more than a decade-and-a-half.

Sadly, the youngest Baring boy, Patrick (b. Nov. 1919) was killed in action in Belgium in May 1940.

Main image: The Tatler (magazine); secondary graphic: Investopedia.com