Colonel Richard Henry Dulany (August 10, 1820 – October 31, 1906) was an American equestrian.

Early life

Richard Henry Dulany was born on August 10, 1820, in

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/ref> He was the son of John Peyton Dulany and Mary Ann DeButts, and the grandson of Samuel DeButts of

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. The Dulany family descend from the O'Dulanys of County Queen's, Ireland, and reached America when Daniel (the Elder), Joseph, and William Dulany arrived in

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, Charles County, British Colonial Maryland, in April, 1703.

Adult life

He Dulany founded the

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in America. He also founded the Piedmont Fox Hounds in 1840, one of the oldest foxhunting organizations in the country. During the

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, he was first a captain of Company A, 6th Virginia Cavalry, and then colonel of the 7th Virginia Cavalry. Colonel Dulany was badly wounded at Kernstown. In Rosser's fight with Sheridan his left arm was permanently disabled, and in the capture of the block house at Brock's Gap, his right arm was wounded.

Personal life

He married his cousin Rebecca Anne Dulany and they had five children: Mary, Fanny, Johnnie, Hal and Richard ("Dick"). Richard Dulany resided first at Old Welbourne with his father, but he later moved to present Welbourne, where the descendants, now in the eighth generation, still live today.

Death

He died in

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in 1906. He was buried at the Old Welbourne Cemetery in Bluemont, Virginia.

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Piedmont Fox Hounds
1820 births 1906 deaths People from Loudoun County, Virginia American male equestrians Confederate States Army officers Loudoun County, Virginia, in the American Civil War People from Upperville, Virginia {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub