HISTORY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



broke up his establishment ^ and handed over his 

 country to Mr Baird ; while in the following year, 

 Walter, fifth Duke of Buccleuch, whose guardians 

 during his minority had subscribed largely on his 

 behalf to the maintenance of the pack, attained 

 majority and agreed to join Mr Baird, then the 

 only surviving original subscriber, in the mastership 

 — the arrangement being that upon Mr Baird's 

 retirement, the hounds, the horses and everything 

 connected with the establishment should become 

 the sole property of the Duke.^ Accordingly on 

 Mr Baird's retirement or death — he did not long 

 survive the making of the arrangement — the pack 

 became the property of the Duke, and has ever 

 since been known as the Duke of Buccleuch's. And 

 it is an interesting fact that the old Lothian blood 

 still exists, and that there are in the Linlithgow 

 and Stirlingshire kennel to-day, partly through 

 Darling (1895), by The Duke of Buccleuch's 

 Trident (1892), and partly through a draft got 

 from his Grace in 1907, descendants of hounds 

 which were in the pack in Mr Baird's time, 

 and which, nearly a century ago, must have 

 crossed the old grass of Linlithgowshire with Will 

 Williamson. 



Shortly after the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire 



1 Mr Baillie's hounds and horses were sold by auction on 14th 

 October 1826, and reaUsed nearly £2000.— Vide 'Sporting Magazine,' 

 November 1826. Some of his young hounds, however, were presented 

 by him to the Duke of Buccleuch, and were entered in the Lothian 

 pack. — Papers at Dalkeith House. 



2 Papers at Dalkeith House. 



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