HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



on the 12th of March 1765, and was therefore 

 at this time in his forty -third year. A grand- 

 daughter of his ^ states that he was a very shy, 

 retiring man ; nevertheless he pleased every one 

 by his civility and good -humour, gave great 

 satisfaction as huntsman,^ and in course of time 

 received due recognition of his ability in that 

 capacity. The whippers-in were John Hislop, 

 who remained in the service of the Hunt for 

 three seasons (1806 - 1808), and James Carter. 

 The latter, who stayed one season only, was 

 Granger's nephew, and son and brother respect- 

 ively of the Thomas and William Carter, who are 

 represented as huntsman and whipper-in in the 

 picture of Sir Mark Masterman Sykes' Fox-Hounds 

 breaking covert, painted by H. B. Chalon, in 1821. 



The area hunted at this time was an extensive 

 one, and from Barnton and Corstorphine in Mid- 

 Lothian on the east, the country proper stretched 

 away through the counties of Linlithgow and 

 Stirling to Cumbernauld in Dumbartonshire on 

 the west, and almost to Dunblane in Perthshire 

 on the north-west; besides which the district 

 around Hamilton and Wishaw, reaching from 

 Lanark on the south-east to Coatbridge on the 

 north-west, was hunted for a short period in the 

 spring of the year, from Hamilton. The Druid 

 relates ^ that Mr Ramsay was wont to ride from 



1 Mrs Walker, Hereford Road, Harrogate. 



2 ' Sporting Magazine,' May 1825. 



3 'Field and Fern ' (South), 1865, p. 53. 



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