Irish State Coach Irish State Coach The Irish State Coach is an enclosed, four-horse-drawn carriage used by the British Royal Family. It is the traditional horse-drawn coach in which the British monarch travels from Buckingham Palace to the Palace of Westminster to formally open the new legislative session of the UK Parliament. The original Irish State Coach was built as a speculative venture in 1851 by John Hutton & Sons of Dublin, who held a Royal Warrant as coachbuilders to Queen Victoria. Exhibited at the 1853 Great Industrial Exhibition, it was admired by the Queen, purchased and delivered to the Royal Mews. From
Ralph Buckingham Ralph Buckingham Ralph Arthur Buckingham (15 January 1907 – 10 April 1988) was a rugby union centre and five-eighths who played 325 games for Leicester Tigers between 1924 and 1935 and once for England in 1927. Buckingham made his Leicester Tigers debut as a 17 year old on 10 September 1924 against Rugby BTH, a works team from British Thomson-Houston in Rugby, he then had to wait until 29 October to play his next game against Moseley where he scored the two tries. Buckingham became a regular in the side playing all of the remaining games of the season from