HISTORY OF THE LINLITHGOW 



Yorkshire, was announced, and his wedding took 

 place at St Peter's Church, Anlaby, on the 8th 

 of February 1887. Presents suitable to the 

 occasion were sent by the members of the Hunt 

 and by the Hunt servants, and on the wedding- 

 day when, by invitation, the West of Fife Hounds 

 met at Hopetoun House, a congratulatory tele- 

 gram was dispatched to the bridegroom. 



Mr Menzies' resignation at the close of the 

 season was followed by the retirement of Atkinson, 

 who had then completed his twenty-sixth season 

 as huntsman or kennel-huntsman in the Lothians.^ 

 The information concerning his career prior to his 

 becoming huntsman to Sir David Baird and Sir 

 Alexander Kinloch in 1860 is a little contradictory, 

 but the following particulars may be accepted as 

 being nearly, if not quite, correct. A son of Lord 

 Portman's huntsman, his first place in hunt ser- 

 vice was with the Berkeley, which pack he left 

 in or about the year 1853 in order to become 

 whipper-in to Lord Suffield. After turning hounds 

 to his lordship for a season he got the horn and 

 carried it until 1859, when he became huntsman 

 to the Vale of White Horse. Coming to Scot- 

 land in 1860, he hunted hounds for Sir David 

 Baird and Sir Alexander Kinloch for nine seasons ; 



' Atkinson occupied the position of huntsman in the Lothians 

 from 1860 to 1881 (twenty-one seasons), of keimel-huntsman from 1882 

 to 1884 (two seasons), and of huntsman from 1884 to 1887 (three 

 seasons). In 1869 he was presented with a cheque for £150, and in 

 1881 with one for £400, while on his final retirement in 1887 he 

 received one for £200. 



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