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recalled that when, as a young man, he was quartered with his regiment in in his power to bring everything up to a high standard of excellence. When Although not altogether the father of foxhunting in Lanarkshire and principally at his Lanarkshire residence, Drumpellier, where he passed away by the pack in Lanarkshire. best days was invariably to the fore in a fast run. At the closing meet of estates, and he also possessed the greater portion of the country then hunted By way of showing his ardent desire for sport at all times, it may be high abilities as a horseman and a great liking for the glories of the hunting Ireland, the Colonel had a pack of foxhounds and hunted them himself. Exceptionally quick in realising the good points of a hound, he was Corsewall near Stranraer, where he resided occasionally ; but he lived the breed of the hounds and other matters concerning the Hunt, doing all strong, and he was not slow in recognising room for improvement both in the right man for the position. His enthusiasm was at all times particularly season 1892-1893, held at Finlaystone, the members of the Hunt marked Renfrewshire, Sir David Buchanan can certainly be reckoned to have done always keenly interested in how the pack worked in the field, and in his known as Colonel Buchanan, he owned the Finlaystone and Auchinbothie his long Mastership being marked with unstinted liberality and sound on 8th February, 1904. The Late Sir DAVID C. R. CARRICK-BUCHANAN. K.C.B. their appreciation of an honourable Mastership of forty-three years. The worthy sportsman was the laird of Glencarradale in Argyllshire, and field, so that when he took over the hounds in 1850 he was generally voted judgment. Sir David was born in 1825, and, when quite a youth, displayed more than anyone towards the furtherance of the sport in the two counties,

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