AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



he was a devoted husband, a fond father, and a 

 fast friend ; . . . and there are few private indi- 

 viduals indeed who will be more widely, deeply, 

 and justly lamented." ^ 



"'The Turf, the Chase, and the Road' all 

 drooped in Scotland when ' Mr Ramsay and the 

 Hounds ' ceased to be a toast in Mid-Lothian, when 

 his Lanercost or Inheritor were not under cup 

 orders for Ayr, and when his mail-coach team, with 

 himself or his good friend from Ury in command, 

 no longer stepped gaily down Leith Street towards 

 cannie Aberdeen. He had his summons when he 

 had barely lived out half his time, and only last 

 autumn [1850] the crape on the Caledonian Hunt 

 scarlet, and the words of sorrow to his memory, 

 told that one still more radiant element was 

 wanting in the great gathering of Scottish 

 sportsmen." ^ 



> 'Caledonian Mercury,' 18th March 1850. 



2 'Scott and Sebright,' by The Druid, 1862, p. 181. 



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