HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



own energy, good management, and sportsmanlike 

 conduct of affairs. 



As has been indicated, Mr Hope of Luffness 

 had been at some pains in getting together a 

 good working pack of hounds. This he generously 

 placed at the disposal of the Hunt committee until 

 the following spring (1872), when the hounds were 

 purchased from him by Colonel Shairp, Colonel 

 Gillon, Colonel M'Barnet, Captain Wauchope, and 

 Mr James Hope.^ To endeavour to keep the pack 

 up to a proper standard was a pleasure to the new 

 master as well as a duty, and in addition to the 

 hounds bred at home, many useful drafts were 

 procured by him from time to time, although 

 none proved to be of more value than that which 

 year after year found its way from Badminton 

 to Golfhall — a present from the Duke of Beaufort 

 to his brother sportsman in the north. 



Unlike Mr Hope of Luffness, Mr James Hope 

 has preserved no records of his time. Fortunately, 

 however, there were several sportsmen, such as 

 Mr William Blackwood, Mr T. E. O. Home, and 

 Mr Charles Murray Barstow who, through the 

 medium of the newspapers, helped to chronicle the 

 sport enjoyed at this period. Both Mr Blackwood 

 and Mr Home had good horses, and when the 

 former was riding Lady Emma, Captain Hicks, 

 or Primrose, and the latter Bondy or Jumbo, they 

 were generally there or thereabouts when hounds 

 ran. After any particularly good day's hunting 



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