HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



The year 1806 was thus not an uneventful 

 one in Lord Elphinstone's Ufe, but his election 

 as master of the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire 

 Hounds, and as a representative peer were not 

 the only incidents of note which occurred in 

 it, since it was in that year also that his mar- 

 riage took place. He married on the 31st of 

 July, Janet Hyndford, youngest daughter of Mr 

 Cornelius Elliot of Wolflee, and widow of Sir 

 John Gibson Carmichael of Skirling ; and soon 

 afterwards removed from Ward Park, where he 

 had previously lived, to Cumbernauld House. 



Although the kennels at Linlithgow still con- 

 tinued to be occupied from time to time, others 

 at Laurieston, near Falkirk, were also used, pro- 

 bably with the view of having the hounds 

 nearer Cumbernauld ; but as Laurieston is dis- 

 tant from Cumbernauld about eleven miles by 

 road, the arrangement does not appear to have 

 been a very convenient one for the master. 

 Allusion has already been made to the fact 

 that what was evidently the Linlithgow and 

 Stirlingshire pack was advertised^ to be dis- 



1 FOX-HOUNDS. 



To be disposed of by public sale at Linlithgow, on Saturday, 

 the 31st current. 



From Twenty to Thirty Couple of good steady Fox-hounds, in Lots 



as intended purchasers may incline. 

 The Sale to begin at the Hunt Inn, Linlithgow, at 12 o'clock mid-day. 



Linlithgow, May 19, 1806. 



Vide 'Edinburgh Advertiser,' ]\Iay 20, 1806. 



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