AND STmLINGSHIRE HUNT 



to repeat the payment. Although the point is 

 an interesting one, it is not of importance, except 

 in so far as it bears upon the question, which 

 arose at a later period, as to whether or not the 

 hounds were the private property of Mr Ramsay's 

 representatives, — a matter which will be referred to 

 at the proper time.^ 



On leaving Mr Hay's service, Knight entered 

 that of Mr Meiklam of Carnbroe in Lanarkshire, 

 and afterwards became kennel-huntsman to Lord 

 Kelburne.'^ Retiring from hunt service, he trained 

 race-horses for Mr Merry at Gullane in East Lo- 

 thian before he took to farming and became tenant 

 of a small farm in Fife. There the late Colonel 

 Anstruther - Thomson stopped one evening after 

 hunting, in order to have a whipper-in's horse, 

 which was very lame, tended, and Knight and one 

 of his daughters kindly gave all the help they 

 could. But, as a farmer, Knight was not success- 

 ful, and eventually, returning to Linlithgow, he 

 once more occupied the old West Port House, in 

 which he died on the 25th of September 1870, at 

 the age of eighty-two.^ Although an old man, it 

 would seem that he was in g-ood health and able to 

 take exercise almost up to the time of his death, for 



1 Vide p. 168. 



^ Knight is mentioned by Nimrod as being kennel-huntsman to Lord 

 Kelbiu-ne in the year 1835. Vide ' Northern Tour,' 1838, p. 407 The 

 * Sporting Magazine ' also contains this reference to him : " When wind- 

 ing up the season at Carnwath in Lanarkshire, Lord Kelburne being 

 necessarily absent, Knight was in command and charge." — Vide ' Sport- 

 ing Magazine,' August 1839. 



' Gravestone in Linlithgow old churchyard. 



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