CHAPTER II. 



LORD ELPHINSTONE. 



MR GEORGE RAMSAY OF BARNTON. 



MR WILLIAM MURRAY, YOUNGER OF POLMAISE. 



1806-1814. 



In April 1806, the members of the Hunt were 

 called together on particular business. This 

 doubtless had reference to the change in the 

 management, referred to at the close of the 

 preceding chapter, which resulted in John, twelfth 

 Lord Elphinstone, taking over the control^ in the 

 following summer, and entering into an agreement 

 with the Hunt, under which he received a sub- 

 scription of £500, afterwards slightly increased, 

 towards the maintenance of the establishment. 



Lord Elphinstone was then about thirty -six 

 years of age. While Master of Elphinstone, 



1 There is a note in the handwriting of the late Mr W. H. Henderson, 

 Linlithgow, for many years honorary secretary and treasurer to the 

 Hunt Club and honorary treasurer to the Hunt, to the effect that Lord 

 Elphinstone was master from 1794 to 1812. This, however, is not in 

 accordance with the documentary evidence relative to this period, the 

 greater part of which was most kindly placed at the author's disposal 

 for the purpose of this work by Mr Henderson himself. 



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