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and served for six years with the rank of lieutenant. He resigned from the army to start a stud farm at
Greenfields, County Tipperary. He was the director of the Autostrop Safety Razor Company, a competitor of
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He collected rare orchids and was interested in gardening and natural history, but his introduction to the
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Bagwell-Purefoy is chiefly remembered as one of a group of five gamblers who formed the
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in 1903 and again in 1904, yielding them a spectacular payoff.
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