AND STmLINGSHIRE HUNT 



at Livingstone House the 14th of November 1771," 

 he had three sons. " Sir William married to his 

 second wife on the 27th of June 1785 at Marybone, 

 London, Mary only daughter and sole heiress of 

 Robert Udney of Udney in Aberdeenshire, Esq.," 

 by whom he had four sons and a daughter.^ 



Sir William was thus by birth and through his 

 first marriage closely connected with the counties 

 of Linlithgow and Mid-Lothian, and in succeeding 

 to the family estate of Livingstone in 1767, he 

 was no doubt placed in such a position as to be able 

 to gratify any love of the chase which he possessed. 

 That he preferred hunting to other forms of sport 

 is probable, for a few years after his succession 

 he built kennels near Livingstone, evidently with 

 the view of having hounds within easy reach of 

 his home ; while, when the Caledonian Hunt ^ was 



^ Appendix to Playfair's 'Baronetage of Scotland,' 1811, p. cxcix. 



^ The Caledonian Hunt was instituted at Hamilton in the Upper 

 Ward of Lanarkshire on 2nd August 1777, under the title of the 

 Hunter's Club — a title which seems to have been changed to the 

 present one in the following year. At its commencement the Hunt 

 had for its Patroness the then Countess of Eglintoun, but since the 

 year 1822, it has received Royal Patronage, their Majesties George 

 IV., William IV., Queen Victoria, the Prince Consoi-t, and his late 

 Majesty, Edward VII., all having been Patrons. Originally, as its title 

 implies, the Hunt had Minting as its object, and its first meeting was 

 fixed to take place at Haddington on the 12th of October 1778, " to hunt 

 for a fortnight." 



On one occasion Sir William Augustus Cunynghame is particularly 

 mentioned in the Minutes of the Caledonian Hunt. On the 10th of 

 February 1807, he was fined a guinea for not dining "notwithstanding 

 a written apology of indisposition, which was overruled, he having 

 been seen walking the streets before dinner." — Vide ' The Royal 

 Caledonian Hunt' ; 1871, p. 1 et seq. 



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