AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



presented with tokens of the kindly feeling which 

 the sportsmen in the Carnwath district, and others 

 in Edinburgh and its neighbourhood, bore towards 

 hiin.^ This dinner and presentation formed one 

 of the last events connected with his mastership, 

 for his retirement in favour of his nephew, Mr 

 Charles Ramsay, took place at the close of the 

 season of 1864. Now that he had kept his last 

 fixture in the hunting field, and had seen his 

 hounds in kennel for the last time, perhaps he 

 may have experienced a feeling of regret that the 

 days of his regency, with their triumphs and dis- 

 appointments, troubles and joys, were at an end. 

 But however this may have been, it is certain 

 that he must then have possessed the gratifying 

 knowledge that he had conscientiously discharged 

 the duties entrusted to him, that his reign had 

 been a good one, and that the afiairs of the Hunt 

 would be handed over by him to his successor in 

 a satisfactory state. After the close of the next 

 season, during which Mr Charles Ramsay was 

 master, he gave up hunting entirely, but when 

 he died on the 29th of April 1902, in his eighty- 

 first year,^ the Hunt did not omit to pay a last 

 mark of respect to the memory of its former master 

 — the huntsman and whippers - in attending his 

 funeral service at Midcalder in hunting costume. 



' Newspaper cutting in scrap-book which belonged to Captain 

 Sandilands, in the possession of Lord Torphichen. 

 ' The Scotsman,' 3rd May 1902. 



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