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and carse lands." In the style of the period, he is 

 recorded to have drained 11,255 roods. " For waste 

 land improved," the Highland Society voted him 

 their Gold Medal in 1834. The land thus reclaimed 

 was the desolate mossy area known as the Moor of 

 Muckart, afterwards named Naemoor a simple touch 

 of Scots humour. At the Highland Society's first 

 Show, which was held at Perth in 1829, Mr Moubray 

 won the premium for best pair of Teeswater or Short- 

 horn heifers with one bred by himself, the other bred 

 by Mr Hood, Tester. Both were descended from a 

 notable bull named Duke. During the thirties Mr 

 Moubray was a frequent and successful exhibitor 

 of Shorthorns. At Stirling Highland in 1833 he was 

 the breeder of the winning aged bull, and he won 

 in the cow class against the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr 

 Archibald Stirling of Keir, and other prominent men. 

 In referring to the show, one of the Scottish journals 

 noted the spirited efforts of Mr Moubray and Mr 

 John Ritchie of Cultmalundie, Perthshire, in intro- 

 ducing Shorthorns to Central Scotland. Mr Moubray 

 died in 1837, aged sixty-three years. 



" There were giants in those days." That applies 

 with special force to the East Lothian of the earlier 

 decades of last century. George Rennie of Phan- 

 tassie, who died in October 1828, aged seventy-nine, 

 and Robert Brown, the accomplished, public-spirited 

 tenant of Markle, who died in February 1831 at 

 seventy-four years of age, had admirers all over 

 Britain and even beyond it. Then there were Judge 

 George Buchan Hepburn and John Carnegie of Hailes, 



