The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 75 



Mrs. G. BARCLAY. 



Being a daughter of the late Mr. Thomas Coats and a member of a family 

 so intimately associated with foxhunting, Mrs. Barclay naturally became 

 interested in the sport, and prior to active participation in the saddle she 

 was frequently seen out driving to watch the doings of the pack. It must 

 be something like thirty years ago since Mrs. Barclay became a regular 

 follower, and as the wife of the Master took a leading place among the 

 sportswomen of the county. Always having the prosperity and welfare of 

 the Hunt at heart, her kindly interest and thoughts for the future were 

 never so plainly revealed as when the war cast a gloom on the sport in 

 Renfrewshire and threatened its extinction. How she assisted and encour- 

 aged Mr. Barclay to carry on with a fervent desire that hunting should be 

 available for our absent warriors when they returned could only be realised 

 by those intimately concerned. Mrs. Barclay can now share with her 

 husband the satisfaction gained by troublous times being overcome, and 

 the Hunt returned to as flourishing a condition as it has ever been. 



