HISTOEY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



which at the end of that period was resumed, and 

 until 1869, was once more hunted fairly with Lin- 

 lithgowshire and part of the county of Edinburgh. 

 During the union with East Lothian (1869-1877) 

 the three Lothians may be said to have consti- 

 tuted the country, for the district lying to the 

 west of the Avon was but seldom visited ; while 

 from its termination down to the present time, the 

 area hunted has practically consisted of the county 

 of Linlithgow, with the south-eastern part of Stir- 

 lingshire and the north-western portion of Mid- 

 Lothian as adjuncts. 



Turning from the country to the men who con- 

 ducted the hunting establishment and to those 

 who gave it their support, — it would seem that 

 Sir William Augustus Cunynghame of Living- 

 stone and Milncraig was master about the year 

 1775, and that after his retirement, which probably 

 took place some twenty years later, the manage- 

 ment was in the hands of a committee. Subse- 

 quently, John, twelfth Lord Elphinstone, Mr George 

 Ramsay of Barnton, and Mr William Murray, 

 younger of Polmaise, had the control from the 

 year 1806 to the year 1814, in which the Hunt 

 fell into abeyance; while after 1814, and until 



1824, the Lothian^ Hounds, under Mr Kobert Baird 

 of Newbyth, hunted the country periodically. In 



1825, a renewal of the establishment was effected by 

 Mr James Johnston of Straiton and Champfleurie, 



^ The original Lothian Hunt, now the Duke of Buccleuch's, estab- 

 lished circa 1783. 



