HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Andrew Wauchope of Niddrie, or Niddrie Marls- 

 chal, in Mid-Lothian, and was at this time in his 

 thirty -sixth year. At the age of eighteen he 

 had entered the army as a cornet in the 16th 

 Lancers, but eight years later, after having risen 

 to the rank of captain, was transferred to the 

 Inniskilling Dragoons, with which regiment he 

 served until he retired in 1870. Within a few 

 months of liis retirement he married Miss Eleanor 

 Grimston, now Mrs Goldfrap, the youngest daughter 

 of the Rev. the Hon. Edward Grimston, a brother 

 of the second Earl of Yerulam, while on the 

 death of his father, in 1874, he succeeded to the 

 estate of Niddrie. Niddrie House, which lies 

 about three miles to the south - east of Edin- 

 burgh, had occupied a fairly central position in 

 the area hitherto hunted, but now that a con- 

 siderable portion of that area was relinquished 

 it did so no longer, inasmuch as the greater part 

 of the country retained lay to the west of and 

 beyond the kennels. These, although still at 

 Golfliall, were nearly nine miles away, and there- 

 fore most of the master's horses as well as those 

 of his wife — who hunted when the fixtures were 

 convenient, and who rode extremely well to hounds 

 — were stabled at the kennels, the journey thither 

 being made out on wheels or by hacking. 



Captain Wauchope agreed to hunt what, pre- 

 viously to the union with East Lothian, had 

 formed the Linlithgow and Stirlingshire country, 

 two days a- week, with a subscription of £1300, 



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