HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



grey horse, Mr Thomas Drybrough. In the fore- 

 ground, turning in his saddle, is Captain Hankey, 

 who lived at Middleton near Uphall, and on his 

 right are Colonel Gillon of Wallhouse, mounted on 

 his famous white horse Potiphar, and Mrs Gillon. 

 In the background, beyond Colonel Gillon, is 

 Major Norman Shairp of Houstoun, on a white 

 pony, and in front of him his son. Major Thomas 

 Shairp. On a grey horse beyond Mrs Gillon is 

 Mr Armour, Glasgow, and on the extreme right 

 of the picture, Mr Redfern, who then lived at 

 Polkemmet. 



Jones and Stracey who, as already indicated, 

 had come as huntsman and first whipper-in re- 

 spectively in 1858, had previously served together 

 it the Old Berks country under Mr Morrell ; in 

 Warwickshire ; and in the Old Burton country 

 under Lord Henry Bentinck. In 1860 Jones 

 re-entered Lord Henry's service,^ and Stracey was 

 promoted to the huntsman's place, while Trueman 

 Tuff was engaged as first whipper-in. Although 

 there are almost no records of the sport which 

 took place during the first five seasons of the 

 active part of Captain Sandilands' mastership,^ 



1 'New Sporting Magazine,' August 1861. 



2 On a county atlas which belonged to the late Mr T. E. 0. Home, 

 now in the possession of his son, Mr Thomas Home, Edinburgh, there 

 are marked the lines of two good runs which took place in the year 1856 

 — one on the 9th of February, from Philpstoun by Hawthornsyke, Black- 

 ness, Abercorn, Hopetoim, Society, Crawstane, and Duddingston to 

 Dundas ; and the other on the 16th of the same month, from near 

 Uphall, by Houstoun House, Knightsridge, Little Dechmont, Drum- 

 cross, Bangour, North Mains of Tartraven, and Beecraigs to Longmuir. 



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