AND STIRLINGSHmE HUNT 



Doncaster meeting of 1841, the pair got separated, 

 and although he had never been there before, the 

 dog found out Lanercost's box from among all the 

 others in the different yards at Pigburn, and an 

 affecting meeting took place. "The fox which a 

 too confident hostler would pitch against him, and 

 the gentleman who would have another peep at 

 Lanercost in the van as the horse was crossing 

 the Mersey to Chester, did not forget this sentinel 

 very easily, and his dog opponents seldom survived 

 their engagements." ^ 



Lord George Bentinck, the " Lord George " re- 

 ferred to in connection with Lanercost's victory, 

 well known as a sportsman and statesman, seems 

 to have been a friend of Mr Bamsay, and about 

 this time to have been hunting with the Linlith- 

 gow and Stirlingshire Hounds. He forms one of 

 the group painted, probably about the year 1840, 

 by Mr Benjamin Crombie, whose ' Modern Athen- 

 ians ' are so well known in book form. The scene 

 of this picture is the inn at Broxburn, at which the 

 members of the Hunt used to put in after hunting, 

 and which was then kept by one Fraser,^ who had 

 been butler to the Lord Torphichen of the time. 

 The figures, taking them from left to right, are. 

 Professor Lizars, surgeon, brother of the engraver, 



^ ' Scott and Sebright,' supra, p. 192. 



2 Mr William Brand, Broxburn, states that the inn frequented by 

 the members of the Hunt in 1840 — the Harrow Inn — was kept by Mr 

 Edward Mather. No doubt, however, more than one inn there had the 

 Hunt's custom. 



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