HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



ceiving a wound on his leg just below the knee. 

 The following day he returned to Barnton and, 

 feeling little the worse of his accident, afterwards 

 went out hunting as usual. On the 11th of 

 December he dined and slept at Hopetoun House, 

 where the hounds were to meet next morning. 

 After hunting on the 12th, he felt unwell and 

 returned home. Subsequently the wound on his 

 leg became inflamed, fever and erysipelas followed, 

 and his death took place on the morning of the 

 30th of the month. ^ 



Thus ended the last of the three masterships 

 held by members of the Barnton family in suc- 

 cessive generations. But the connexion between 

 the family and the Hunt was not yet at an end, 

 for, although the male line became extinct in the 

 person of Mr Charles Bamsay, the female line was 

 not exhausted, and the succession to the estates 

 of Barnton, Sauchie, and Bannockburn, which had 

 been entailed by Mr George Bamsay in the year 

 1807, now devolved upon his eldest daughters 

 eldest son. Sir Alexander Gibson - Maitland,^ who 

 for a number of years past had been a zealous 

 supporter of the Hunt, and was at this period still 

 hunting with the pack. 



When, after Mr Bamsay's funeral, hunting was 

 resumed on the 11th of January, Captain Sandi- 

 lands again acted as master, and continued to do 



^ ' Edinburgh Evening Courant,' 1st January 1866. 



- On his succession to the estates of Barnton, Sauchie, and Bannock- 

 burn, Sir Alexander Charles Gibson-Maitland assumed the additional 

 surname of Ramsay. 



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