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consequence the surname of Gilmour, and became also 

 of Craitj^millar. He married Jean Clerk, of the family 

 of Pennvcuick, and at his death in 1797 was succeeded 

 by his eldest son, Walter Little Gilmour of Liberton 

 and Crai^millar, who was an officer in the Army. 

 \\'alter married in 1805 James Anne Macdowall, heiress 

 of Canonmills, and died two years after, leaving a 

 dauo^hter, Jane, and a posthumous son, Walter James 

 Little Gilmour. Mr Little Gilmour's education was 

 begun at the Edinburoh High School and completed 

 at Oxford. He was blest with a good mother, whose 

 memory throughout life he never failed to cherish 

 with feelings of almost sacred admiration. At an 

 early age he manifested a great predilection for 

 athletic exercises and field-sports, and at hunting, 

 shooting, fishing, and golfing he was well known and 

 honoured as a model sportsman. He was in his 

 later years the oldest member of the Melton and 

 Caledonian hunts, and was the last survivor of the 

 grouj:) in the celebrated picture by the late Sir Francis 

 Grant, President of the Royal Academy, the " Melton 

 Breakfast." During his long career he was highly 



