5l8 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



horses have attained great fame. Sir William died at 

 Venice 8th January 1878. At the General Meeting on 5th 

 June same year, on the motion of the Chairman, Lord 

 Pohvarth, the Society recorded in the minutes ' the deep 

 and sincere regret with which they regard the death of Sir 

 William Stirling-Maxwell of Polloc and Keir, Bart, K.T., 

 M.P., their Honorary Secretary for the past ten years. 

 They deplore the severe loss the Society and the nation 

 have sustained by the death, at a comparatively early age, 

 of one who had been so closely connected with the Society, 

 and who had rendered so many eminent services to his 

 country as a scholar, a statesman, an agriculturist, and a 

 man of taste.' 



IX. Sir Graham Graham Montgomery of Stan- 

 hope, Bart, M.P., was on 3rd April 1878 elected Honorary 

 Secretary, and still holds office. In 1854 Sir Graham was 

 appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Kinross-shire ; in 1866-68, 

 a Lord of the Treasury. He represented the County of 

 Peebles in Parliament from 1852 to 1868, and has repre- 

 sented the Combined Counties of Peebles and Selkirk since 

 November 1868. 



