AND STIRLINGSHIRE HUNT 



two for Mid-Lothian, Sir Alexander Gibson-Mait- 

 land and Mr Drybrough,^ Mr Ramsay continued 

 Stracey as huntsman and Trueman Tuff as first 

 whipper-in, while John Scott,^ who had previously 

 acted as second -horseman to Captain Sandilands, 

 was promoted to the second whipper-in's place 

 vacated by Thomas Cranston.^ The season com- 

 menced in the Carnwath country about the end 

 of October, but in the middle of the following 

 month, the hounds were brought to the Golfhall 

 kennels in order to overtake the home country. 

 Although the current of events had run smoothly 

 up to this time, there now began to gather over 

 Barnton the gloom which deepened around it and 

 spread itself throughout the entire hunting country 

 during the last days of the year. The story of Mr 

 Ramsay's untimely death is still well known to 

 many. In the end of November he had gone to 

 Lee Castle, where he was present at the celebration 

 of the coming of age of Sir Norman Macdonald 

 Lockhart. When returning to Lanark after a ball 

 given in connection with the event by Mr Monteith 

 of Carstairs, the driver of the omnibus which con- 

 veyed him and several other guests, mistook a turn 

 in the road, and drove under some trees, Mr Ramsay 

 being dragged from his seat by a branch and re- 



' Minute of Meeting held at Linlithgow, March 31st 1865, among 

 Hunt papers in the custody of Messrs Glen & Henderson, Linlithgow. 



- Afterwards hiuitsman to the Albrighton Hounds. 



^ Afterwards huntsman, for seventeen seasons, to the Berwickshire 

 Hounds. 



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