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