HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Potts remained with the Linlithgow and Stirling- 

 shire pack for three seasons, and therefore saw 

 a change in the management, for in the autumn 

 of 1855 Captain Fleeming was appointed to the 

 command of the 2nd Hegiment of Light Dragoons 

 in the British German Legion, which had been 

 raised about a year after the Crimean War broke 

 out,^ and the charge devolved on his fellow-master. 

 Although he did not, so far as is known, form- 

 ally resign office on receiving this appointment, he 

 does not appear to have taken any part in the 

 management afterwards ; and it may be assumed 

 that his mastership, which was characterised by 

 some good sport, but which, like many others, 

 was not altogether free from trouble, ended at 

 this period. About five years later, on the death 

 of his cousin, the thirteenth Lord Elphinstone, 

 he succeeded to the peerage ; but he did not hold 

 it long, for his death occurred on the 13th of the 

 following month of January, when the title passed 

 to his kinsman, Captain William Buller FuUerton 

 Elphinstone, the father of the present and six- 

 teenth Lord Elphinstone.^ When hunting near 

 West Linton on one occasion, it was suggested 

 to Captain Fleeming that he might say a few 

 polite words to the minister there, who, in those 

 days, had some very good coverts. To this he 

 readily assented, and while hounds were drawing, 

 took the opportunity of making himself agreeable. 



1 War waa declared in March 1854. 



2 'Elphinstone Family Book,' by Sir William Fraser, vol. i. p. 307. 



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