HTSTOKY OF THE L. & S. HUNT 



In doing so he showed that public spirit which 

 he is known to possess, and for which, in this 

 instance, he received the thanks of his fellow- 

 members of the Hunt committee.^ But in agree- 

 ing to continue at the head of affairs, Sir Robert 

 stipulated that he should be relieved of the 

 management, and, accordingly, the duties of act- 

 ing master were entrusted to Mr Andrew Gillon,^ 

 whose name has already occurred in these pages, 

 and whose father and grandfather, it will be re- 

 membered, had previously hunted the countrv. 

 Although Wallhouse had now passed into other 

 hands, ^ the name of the family in whose possession 

 it had been for so long was still honoured and 

 respected, and while, no doubt, this circumstance 

 was in Mr Gillon's favour, the success of his 

 mastership was due entirely to his own energy, 

 sportsmanlike conduct, and personal popularity. 

 He worked hard summer and winter alike, took 

 the rough with the smooth, and always did his 

 best to show sport : and during the four years 

 in which he was in office an excellent feeling to- 

 wards the Hunt existed throughout the country. 



When Mr Fred Usher accepted the mastership 

 of the Berwickshire Hounds he arranged to take 

 Hall with him, and it therefore fell to the lot 

 of Mr Gillon to appoint a new huntsman. In his 

 choice he was fortunate, for Sam Morgan, junior, 

 whom he engaged, has shown sport in spite of 



1 Minute-book, vol. ii. p. 237. - Ibid., p. 250. 



2 Wallhousje was sold in 1904 to its present owner, Mr James Wood. 



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