AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



and Mr William Downe Gillon of Wallhouse, who 

 acted as joint - masters for three years and three 

 months. On their resignation Mr William Hay of 

 Duns Castle and Drummelzier accepted the man- 

 agement, but two seasons later retired in favour 

 of Mr William Ramsay Ramsay of Barnton, whose 

 reign lasted from 1830 until his death in 1850. 

 The conduct of affairs was then entrusted to Cap- 

 tain the Hon. James Sandilands, second son of 

 the tenth Lord Torphichen, and Captain John 

 Elphinstone-Fleeming, afterwards fourteenth Lord 

 Elphinstone, the latter taking the chief charge 

 until 1855, and the former subsequently acting 

 alone for the space of ten seasons. In 1865, Mr 

 Charles William Ramsay Ramsay of Barnton 

 attained majority and assumed the control, but 

 his mastership was a short one, for his death 

 took place in the end of that year. Colonel 

 Andrew Gillon of Wallhouse succeeded him and 

 hunted the country for three seasons, or until 1869, 

 when the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire and the 

 Lothian ^ Hunts were amalgamated under the 

 title of the Lothians Hunt. Mr Henry Walter 

 Hope of Luffness was the first master of the con- 

 joined establishments, his successor being found 

 in 1871 in Mr James Hope, Easter Duddingston, 

 who remained in ofiice until the year 1877, when 

 the union terminated. Then the Linlithgow and 

 Stirlingshire Hunt was revived under Captain, 

 afterwards Major, William John Wauchope of 



' The second or East Lothian Hunt, established 1855. 



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