HISTORY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



possession of large landed estates lying in a 

 hunting country, also, would not be without its 

 influence, and the fortune which Mr Ramsay had 

 inherited from his father, and which must have 

 increased very materially during his long minority, 

 would render the indulgence in any form of sport 

 an easy matter. Thus, within a few months of 

 his having attained manhood, Mr Ramsay came 

 to occupy the position of master of the Linlithgow 

 and Stirlingshire Hounds, and to enter upon that 

 period in the history of the Hunt during which — 

 the country being almost entirely pastoral or 

 agricultural and uninjured by mineral workings — 

 sport was probably at its best. Born on the 

 29th of May 1809, he succeeded, on the death 

 of his father in the following year, to the estate 

 of Barn ton in Mid -Lothian and to the properties 

 of Sauchie and Bannockburn in Stirlingshire. He 

 married on the 4th of August 1828, the Hon. 

 Mary Sandilands, only daughter of James, tenth 

 Lord Torphichen ; represented Stirlingshire in 

 Parliament in the years 1831 and 1832; and 

 was subsequently member for Mid- Lothian from 

 1841 to 1845.1 On the 9th of January 1832 

 he was admitted a member of the Caledonian 

 Hunt. 



Nimrod entitled his well-known work 'The 

 Chase, the Turf, and the Road,' and although each 

 of these subjects seems to have occupied Mr Ram- 

 say to a considerable extent, it is possible that, 



1 Foster's ' Members of Parliament.' 



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