AND STIELINGSHIRE HUNT 



of Lord Elphinstone and his hounds, painted by 

 Douglas about this time.-'^ This picture, from which 

 the portrait of Lord Elphinstone has been repro- 

 duced, ^ was executed in duplicate, one copy being 

 in the possession of the present Lord Elphinstone 

 at Carberry Tower, Mid-Lothian, and the other in 

 that of Colonel Anstruther at Charleton, Fife.^ 

 Lord Elphinstone died at Bath in May 1813, and 

 was buried at the Abbey there. He was succeeded 

 in the title by his only son. 



Mr Murray, who assumed the control in 1810, 

 was the eldest son of Mr William Murray of 

 Touchadam and Polmaise in Stirlingshire, and 

 was born on the 6th of July 1773. In 1799 he 

 married Miss Anne Maxwell, daughter of Sir 

 William Maxwell of Monreith, and went to live 

 at Muiravonside, at that time called " The Neuk." 

 He was a member of the Caledonian Hunt, a 

 deputy lieutenant for the county of Stirling, and 

 a lieutenant-colonel of yeomanry, in consequence 

 of which he is often alluded to, and was perhaps 

 better known, as Colonel Murray. At the end 

 of his first season, Granger, whose services as 

 huntsman had been retained, had been in office 

 for four years. Having shown much good sport, 



^ Letter from the late Colonel Anstruther Thomson to the author, 

 dated 12th November 1893. In this letter Colonel Thomson states : 

 "I have a picture of John, 12th Lord Elphinstone, with his hounds 

 and whipper-in. . . . The whij^per-in was Kit Scott." 



2 Vide illustration, p. 40. 



2 The picture at Charleton bears this inscription : "John, 12th Lord 

 Elphinstone, on his Favom-ite Horse, and His Lordship's Whipper-in 

 mounted on Burgundy.'' 



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