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Title: Records of the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Judd, H Tantivy
Subjects: Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Fox-Hounds (Association) Horses Hunting -- Scotland Fox hunting
Publisher: Glasgow : Aird & Coghill
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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te man to hounds, being a fearless horseman. He in turn has ason in Master Billy Finlayson, who recently joined the gay throng, and it isa remarkable fact that three generations should be in the hunting field atthe same time. It may be added that the Finlayson family have beenclosely associated with the sport for nearly half a century. 40 The Lanarkshire and Renfrezvshire Hunt. PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT FINLAYSTONE HOUSE. The portrait of Mr. George J. Kidston, by Sir George Reid, wasformally presented by the members of the Hunt at a dinner held previouslyin Glasgow, and this was, on completion by the artist, formally handedover at a meet of hounds on 21st January, 1905. In the centre of thepicture is the worthy recipient returning thanks, and others who may berecognised are (left to right) :—Mr. G. Barclay, the late Mr. J. C. Cuning-hame, the late Miss Kidston, the late Sir Charles Bine Renshaw, Bart.,Mrs. G. Barclay, and the late Mr. James J. Barclay. Photograph by C.Reid of Wishaw.
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PRESENTATION CEREMONY AT F1NLAYSTONE HOUSE (1905). The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt. 41 Cumpstone was succeeded as huntsman by Will Hewitt, who had fora long time acted as first whip with Lord Eglintons hounds. Justprevious to this season a violent storm had swept the landscape, levellingtrees in their thousands to the ground, so that rides in coverts and wood-lands were so badly blocked by fallen timber as to make it almost impossiblefor anyone to pass through on horseback. Hewitt therefore had a mostdifficult task to hunt the hounds successfully. The season opened on 2ndNovember at Houston with a moderate days sport, and the first good runthat came was on the 12th, after a meet at Glanderston. They killed onehere following a brief spin from Neilston Pad, and another was accounted forin Cowden Hall coverts. Caldwell Law was then tried, and the expectedafternoon gallop came off. Running over the hill to the left of FinnieBrae hounds went on past Hall of Caldwell, over Shutterflet

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