AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



at Kersewell in the Carnwath country, and in the 

 following year these were occupied by the pack. 

 Beyond lodging and feeding rooms for the hounds, 

 and a house for the huntsman, there was little or 

 no accommodation, and the whippers-in and the 

 horses had to be quartered at one of the inns in 

 the village of Carnwath. In 1857 the Laurieston 

 kennels were given up, and the present kennels 

 at Golfhall, which had been rebuilt or repaired, 

 came to be used in their place. In the Hunt staff 

 also, there were many and rapid changes.^ Potts 

 left in 1856, and was succeeded by Robert Pur- 

 slow, the whippers - in being Henry Nason and 

 Thomas Marlow. In the following year Nason took 

 Purslow's place as huntsman, while C. Roberts 

 and W. Shore turned hounds to him. But Nason, 

 like Purslow, remained in office for one season 

 only, and in 1858 was relieved by J. Jones, to 

 whom James Stracey acted as first whipper-in. 



Probably none of the Linlithgow and Stirling- 

 shire Hunt servants has risen to greater distinc- 

 tion in his calling than William Shore. Born at 

 Hamilton in 1832, his father being at that time 

 gamekeeper to the Duke of Hamilton, Shore 

 began his hunting life with the pack under Pur- 

 slow in the summer of 1857, and after filling the 

 post of whipper-in at Golfhall for three seasons, 

 went to Brocklesby where, for other three, he 

 occupied a similar position under the third Tom 



1 'New Sporting Magazine,' June and July 1858, and 'The Field,' 

 29th December 1877. 



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