Lord Tyrone was educated at
Eton and became
Marquess of Waterford in 1895 on the death of
his father by suicide. When Lord Waterford reached his majority (i.e. turned 21 and came of age) on 28 April 1896 seven hundred invited guests, including the
Duke of Beaufort attended the celebrations at the family seat of
Curraghmore. He held a commission in the 4th (
Militia) battalion of the
Worcestershire Regiment until 18 March 1896, when he transferred to a commission with the regular army as he became
second lieutenant in the
Royal Horse Guards. He was appointed a
deputy lieutenant of
Northumberland on 21 May 1901, and invested as a Knight of the
Order of St Patrick on 15 March 1902. On 10 February 1902 he was appointed
lieutenant-colonel in command of the
South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry. The following month he was seconded to the 37th Battalion of the
Imperial Yeomanry, with the temporary rank of captain in the Army. The battalion had been raised to provide soldiers for the
Second Boer War, and left in late May 1902 for
South Africa, arriving in
Cape Town the following month. Peace had been announced while they were at sea, however, and Lord Waterford soon returned home, resigning his commission in the Imperial Yeomanry on 25 August 1902. While big game hunting in southern Africa Lord Tyrone was attacked by a lion. He narrowly escaped injury but in 1911 accidentally drowned in a river on his estate at Curraghmore. He had just overhauled his family's woollen mills at
Kilmacthomas with new machinery, which following his death was sold off and later went to the
Ardfinnan Woollen Mills. ==Family==