HISTOEY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



of her son's eventually tilling the position which 

 both his father and grandfather had already occu- 

 pied. In so disposing, Mrs Ramsay, who could 

 not well have undertaken the entire management 

 of the establishment, delegated her authority in 

 the field to her brother Captain Sandilands and, 

 owing to his frequent absence, to Captain Fleeming 

 also.^ 



Captain Sandilands, who was the youngest son 

 of the tenth Lord Torphichen, was born on the 

 21st of October 1821, and as already shown, 

 had hunted with the pack during Mr Ramsay's 

 mastership. At this time, however, he was with 

 his regiment, the 8th Hussars, which he had 

 joined in the year 1839, and the duties connected 

 with the mastership therefore fell to Captain 

 Fleeming. The latter, who was born on the 11th 

 of December 1819, and had joined the 71st High- 

 land Light Infantry, succeeded to the estate of 

 Cumbernauld in Dumbartonshire on the death of 

 his father, Admiral Charles Elphinstone-Fleeming, 

 in 1840. After his succession he served with the 

 Inniskilling Dragoons, and the I7th Lancers, but 

 leaving the army in the spring of 1850 now began, 

 as his uncle the twelfth Lord Elphinstone had 

 done nearly half a century before, to undertake 

 the active part of the management. 



Rintoul continued to occupy the huntsman's 

 place, and, although he was about fifty years of 

 age and had seen no less than twenty-four seasons' 



1 Vide Appendix III. 



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