VII PANMURE (51) 



The breeder of Aberdeen-Angus cat- 

 tle who does not study pedigrees mas' 

 have to plead guilty of lack of knowl- 

 edge of Panmure (51), and yet in his 

 time he was a very famous animal. In 

 fact, by many he is regarded as impor- 

 tant an element in Angus history as 

 Hubback of the Shorthorns. Both were 

 great bulls individually and in breeding 

 power. 



There has been some controversy con- 

 cerning the ancestry of Panmure. Vol. 

 I. of the Scotch Polled Cattle Herd Book 

 states that his dam is Black Meg (766), 

 an animal of implied Galloway blood, 

 while the name of her sire is not given 

 in this volume. A careful study of the 

 parentage of Panmure was made by Mr. 

 Jamieson of Marischal college, Aber- 

 deen, who most satisfactorily solved the 

 question. Black Meg (766) may be re- 

 ferred to as Black Meg of Ardovie. Wil- 

 liam Fullerton of Ardovie, the owner of 

 Panmure, in correspondence published 

 by Mr. Jamieson, states that the bull 

 was bred by Lord Panmure, and that his 

 dam was Black Meg of Panmure, un- 

 questionably an Aberdeen-Angus. Some 

 time after the publication of the herd 

 book referred to it was learned that Pan- 

 mure was sired by an Angus bull by 

 the name of Hector, bred by a gentle- 

 man of that name of Fernyflatt, parish 

 ol Kinneff. 



Regarding the reflection on- the purity 

 of Panmure's breeding that is, being 

 partly from Galloway blood the fol- 

 lowing is of interest: Trie bull was 

 owned for some years by Mr. Farquhar- 

 son Taylor of Wellhouse, Aberdeen. 

 While in his possession Lord Panmure 

 sent a famous artist by the name of 

 Phillip to his home to paint the bull's 

 portrait. "Not satisfied with Mr. Phil- 

 lip's first sketch," writes Mr. McCombie, 

 "he sent him back and Mr. Phillip lived 

 at Wellhouse for weeks and painted Parf- 

 mure a second time." Referring to the 

 portrait of the bull, as bearing on breed 

 ancestry and type, Mr. Fullerton, along 

 in the early '70s, wrote to Mr. Jamieson 

 as follows: "But the bull Panmure is 

 on canvas in the Mechanics' hall, Brech- 



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