228 Field Meetings. 



welcomed, in the absence of Mrs Hunter- Arundell, bv Mr H. W. 

 F. Wacld, her grand-nephew. 



The history of Barjarg may call for a word of explanation. 

 The estate belonged in the sixteenth century to the Earl of 

 Morton. In April, 1587, it passed into the possession of Mr 

 Thomas Grierson, and was held by his family until towards the 

 end of the seventeenth century. It then passed by marriage to 

 Mr Charles Erskine, advocate, who on his appointment as a lord 

 of session in 1742 assumed the title of Lord Tinwald. He was 

 the third son of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, and in 1748 he suc- 

 ceeded to the paternal estate. He died fifteen years later. His 

 only surviving son James became proprietor of Barjarg, but sold 

 it to the Rev. Andrew Hunter, D.D., of Abbotshill, Ayrshire, in 

 1772. A native of Edinburgh, Dr Hunter was born in 1744, and 

 married the eldest daughter of the sixth Lord Napier of Ettrick. 

 He was minister of the New Church, Dumfries, from 1770 to 

 1779; of new Greyfriars', Edinburgh, from 1779 to 1786; and 

 afterwards of Tron Church, Edinburgh. In 1792 he was Mode- 

 rator of the General Assembly. In Grant's " History of the 

 University of Edinburgh," the author makes this reference to Dr 

 Hunter :— ^" Perhaps no man in a public situation ever passed 

 through life more respected or with a more unblemished reputa- 

 tion." Dr Hunter was succeeded in the proprietorship of Barjarg 

 by his son William Francis, advocate, who took the additional 

 surname of Arundell. He married in 1813 Jane Arundell St. 

 Aubyn, heiress of Francis St. Aubyn of Collin Mixton by his wife, 

 Jane Arundell, co-heiress of the Arundells of Tolverne and Treet- 

 hall, in Cornwall. The estate passed to his son Godolphin 

 Arundel], who, however, died shortly afterwards. The latter's 

 brother, William Francis, succeeded him, and continued to be 

 proprietor of Barjarg till his death twenty years ago. He married 

 in 1849 Mary, second daughter of David Dickson of Kilbuc'o 

 and Hartree, but there was no issue of the marriage. He di.;- 

 entailed the estate and left it to the descendants of his second 

 sister Marianne, and first to the descendants of her younger 

 daughter Mary, who married Mr Thomas Herbert Wadd. 



The style of architecture of Barjarg is old Scotch baronial : 

 it consists of an ancient tower which existed in the Earl of 

 Morton's time, and of an addition which was made in 1680. It is 



