AND STIRLINGSHIEE HUNT 



Ramsay never had a better hound than Bedford 

 (1830) by the Duke of Beaufort's Brusher (1822) 

 — Dairymaid, bred by Mr Nichol and entered in 

 1824 by Lord Kintore. But "Lonsdale blood was 

 Mr Bamsay's delight, and he bought 17^ couple 

 of them at the Cottesmore sale"^ in 1842, while 

 two years later he acquired Lord Kintore's pack,^ 

 which thus, a second time, found its way into the 

 Linlithgow and Stirlingshire country. 



Captain Sandilands did not care for a heavy- 

 boned hound, ^ and the picture * of " The Meet at 

 Barnton," painted by Stewart Watson, and finished 

 about the year 1858, rather bears this out. At 

 this period drafts were got from the Brocklesby, 

 the Bramham Moor, the Berkeley, and other 

 kennels ; but then, as at other times both earlier 

 and later, there were always hounds bred at home, 

 and the sire most used was Sir Bichard Sutton's 

 Bajazet (1854) by Mr Lumley's Boyster (1848) 

 — Sir Bichard's Barbara (1851). 



On the death of Mr C. W. B. Bamsay in 1865, 

 the pack, which a few years previously had been 

 claimed as private property by Mrs W. B. Bamsay, 

 was sold. The dog hounds were purchased by 

 Colonel Gillon, the next master, and the bitches, 

 which had been bought by Lord Eglinton, were 

 taken to Ayrshire by Trueman Tuff, the first 

 whipper-in. Throughout Colonel Gillon's master- 



1 'Field and Fern' (South), by The Druid, 1865, p. 54. 



2 'Sporting Magazine' and ' New Sporting Magazine,' March 1844. 



^ ' Field and Fern,' supra, p. 59. * Vide illustration, p. 170. 



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