AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



The list of subscribers ^ given on the following 

 page is interesting not only on account of the 

 names which it contains, but also as showing the 

 sums agreed to be contributed. 



' The Sporting Magazine ' alludes to Mr Johnston 

 and Mr Gillon as "celebrated sportsmen,"^ and 

 although the adjective used was taken exception 

 to,^ it will be conceded that their action in endea- 

 vouring to bring about a renewal of the establish- 

 ment was a most sportsman-like one. And it is 

 probable that no better arrangement than the 

 association of these gentlemen in the management 

 could well have been devised, since each, being an 

 owner of property lying within the Hunt's terri- 

 tory, had that interest in the country as well as in 

 the Hunt which forms a connecting link between 

 the two, and tends to promote good feeling between 

 those who cultivate and those who ride over the 

 land. Mr Johnston was proprietor of the estate 

 of Straiton in Mid-Lothian, as well as of the lands 

 of Champfleurie in Linlithgowshire, while Mr Gillon 

 had inherited the property of Wallhouse, which 

 had then been in the possession of his family for 

 between two and three hundred years. The pack 

 which they had purchased had hunted Forfarshire 

 and Kincardineshire in the autumn of 1824, It 

 consisted of about thirty couples of hounds, and 

 included several of those which had been drawn 



* List of subscribers among Hunt papers in the custody of Messrs 

 Glen & Henderson, Linlithgow. 

 2 'Sporting Magazine,' February 1825. ^ xbid., May 1825. 



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