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In that same year at Wimbledon Edward Ross made 

 with the Metford rifle highest possible scores at 600 

 and 1,000 yards, seven shots at each range, and also 

 won the Albert Cup with 56 out of a possible 60. 



He and his father were once the joint heroes of a 

 memorable feat. At the Highland Rifle Association 

 meeting in 1867 there were thirteen open prizes to 

 be competed for, and Captain Ross and his son Edward 

 won eleven of them. Edward, who was a barrister by 

 profession, was appointed Chairman of the Board of 

 Lunacy in 1874, and held that office until 1877, when 

 he was made a Visitor in Lunacy. His health broke 

 down utterly a few years later, and he died at Edinburgh 

 in the January of 1896, at the age of fifty-five. 



Hercules Ross, too, was a fine shot. He won the 

 Albert Cup at Wimbledon in 1864, with the fine score 

 of 74 out of a possible 84 at 800, 900, and 1,000 yards. 

 He carried off the Indian Championship three years 

 in succession, and on the last occasion made nine bull's- 

 eyes with his ten shots at 1,000 yards. His deadly 

 marksmanship stood him in good stead during the 

 Mutiny, for he once held a large force of rebel Sepoys 

 at bay and kept them from crossing a river by shooting 

 down time after time the rowers of the one large boat 

 which was their only means of transit. Both Colin 

 and Hercules Ross figured with their father and their 

 brother Edward among the Scottish team for the Elcho 

 Shield Colin three times, Hercules twice and did 

 yeoman's service for their country. 



One of the most interesting features of the first 

 Wimbledon meeting was the advent of a number of 



