CHAPTEE VIII. 



THE UNION. 



1869-1877. 



When the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire Hunt came 

 to be without a master in consequence of the 

 retirement of Colonel Gillon, it so happened that 

 the Lothian, i.e., East Lothian, Hunt was placed 

 in a similar position through the resignation of 

 Captain, now Sir Alexander, Kinloch of Gilmerton. 

 Before entering into the circumstances attending 

 the temporary union of these Hunts, which was 

 resolved upon in the spring of the year 1869, 

 it will be convenient to look back on the history 

 of the hunting of the East Lothian or Haddington- 

 shire country which, up to this point, has only 

 been referred to casually. As already mentioned, 

 this district, in the end of the eighteenth and 

 beginning of the nineteenth century, had pertained 

 to the old Lothian, now the Duke of Buccleuch's 

 Hunt, under the management of Mr Robert Baird 

 of Newbyth and the fifth Duke of Buccleuch, but 

 later, in the year 1833, had been lent by his 



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