AND STIELINGSHIEE HUNT 



prices prevalent at that time, was not extravagant 

 for the maintenance of a pack of fox -hounds 

 hunting three and occasionally four days a -week. 

 But the expense of the short visit to Lanarkshire 

 was comparatively great ; and had the hounds 

 been able to hunt that district from their own 

 kennel, or had they remained in the home country 

 instead, a considerable saving would have been 

 effected. 



The Hunt had now reached the zenith of its 

 fame, and many sportsmen besides those immedi- 

 ately connected with the counties of Linlithgow 

 and Stirling were either hunting with or sub- 

 scribing to the hounds. In addition to Lord 

 Elphinstone and Mr Ramsay, there were the Earl 

 of Hopetoun and his brothers the Hon. John Hope 

 and the Hon. Alexander Hope, the Duke of Mon- 

 trose, Lord Primrose and his brother the Hon. 

 F. W. Primrose, the Marquis of Douglas, after- 

 wards Duke of Hamilton, and his brother Lord 

 Archibald Hamilton, Lord Keith and Captain, 

 afterwards Admiral, the Hon. Charles Elphinstone- 

 Fleeming — uncle and brother respectively of Lord 

 Elphinstone — Mr John Smellie, Mr James Graham 

 of Underwood, Mr Thomas Graham of Airth, the 

 Earl of Dalhousie, Mr James Watson of Saughton, 

 Major G. Hamilton Dundas of Duddingston, Mr 

 William Macdowall of Castle Semple and his son 

 Captain David Macdowall, R.N., Sir John Hope 

 of Craighall, Mr James J. Cadell of Grange, 

 Colonel F. Simpson of Plean, Mr James M. Wal- 



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