Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . ,Captain Ross, Captain Douglas, Captain Maxse andtheir brither Scots whose names have cropped upfrom time to time in these pages. But none of themall, I think, stood out as a bolder or more striking figurein the English hunting-field than the subject of mypresent sketch. Colonel John Anstruther Thomson. Born at Charleton in the Kingdom of Fife, on the8th of August 1818, John Anstruther Thomson canboast
Kings of the hunting-field : memoirs and anecdotes of distinguished masters of hounds and other celebrities of the chase with histories of famous packs, and hunting traditions of great houses . ,Captain Ross, Captain Douglas, Captain Maxse andtheir brither Scots whose names have cropped upfrom time to time in these pages. But none of themall, I think, stood out as a bolder or more striking figurein the English hunting-field than the subject of mypresent sketch. Colonel John Anstruther Thomson. Born at Charleton in the Kingdom of Fife, on the8th of August 1818, John Anstruther Thomson canboast descent from one of the oldest families in is twentieth in direct descent from William deCandela, Lord of Anstruther, and heir of the line of theSt Clairs, Earls of Orkney. His father, who added thename of Thomson to that of Anstruther on succeeding.
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