AND STIRLINGSHIEE HUNT 



Gillon, his son Colonel Andrew Gillon, and his 

 grandson Mr Andrew Gillon ; that two Lords 

 Elphinstone, the twelfth lord and the fourteenth 

 lord, then Captain Fleeming, gave their services 

 to the Hunt in directing its management ; and that 

 Captain Sandilands and Sir Kobert Usher have 

 each occupied the position of master for the con- 

 siderable space of fifteen years. 



Regarding those, other than masters, who have 

 supported the Hunt — since the beginning, most of 

 the landowners in the country, whether they 

 hunted or not, have given their aid or counte- 

 nance to the sport in one way or another ; the 

 farmers, although but few of them have joined 

 in the chase of late years, have cheerfully allowed 

 their land to be ridden over in the worst periods 

 of agricultural depression ; and many more, neither 

 owners nor occupiers of land, but followers of the 

 pack, have aiforded pecuniary assistance. To enu- 

 merate all the supporters whom the Hunt has, 

 and has had, would form a difficult if not a well- 

 nigh impossible task, but without invidious dis- 

 tinction, particular mention may be made of the 

 Houstoun family and the Hopetoun family, for the 

 former during several generations has given every 

 assistance in its power, and the latter, notably, 

 all through the Hunt's history, has contributed 

 much support. Within recent years the Hunt 

 has had no better friend than the late Marquis of 

 Linlithgow, who, although keeping two private 

 packs, the Hopetoun harriers and beagles, was 



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