Peter Gilpin

Peter Valentine Purcell of Halverstown, Carragh, County Kildare, and Agnes Maria Lethbridge, daughter of Sir John Lethbridge, 3rd Baronet.

His father died in 1864 and his mother remarried in 1866 Henry St. John Vaughan Thomas-Le-Marchant.

[6] He and his wife adopted the surname Gilpin as a condition of her inheriting the entailed Hockliffe Grange estate from her uncle Sir Richard Gilpin, 1st Baronet.

[7] In the late 1880s, they left Bedfordshire and settled in Ireland, where he began training racehorses while living at Whiteleas near Kildare.

[8] This Irish horse racing biographical article is a stub.