Dumfriesshire Hound

Dumfriesshire Black and Tan Foxhounds were a pack of foxhounds kennelled at Glenholm Kennels, Kettleholm, near Lockerbie until they were disbanded in 2001. They were established by Sir John Buchanan Jardine, author of Hounds of the World (1937), after the First World War. The hounds are believed to have originally been created by crossing Bloodhound/Gascony blue/English Foxhound. They were larger than standard foxhounds and were black and tan. Although that pack was disbanded in 1986, there is a pack descended from them in France, known as Equipage de la Roirie.

These large hounds were also crossed with the Dumfriesshire Otterhounds during the foundation of the Otterhound pack. Since the Second World War, the Dumfriessire Hound has been used to improve speed and agility in several clean boot hunting Bloodhound packs; as one example, Eric Furness introduced Dumfriesshire Hound blood into his Peak Bloodhounds.

Dumfriesshire foxhounds starred as bloodhounds in The Thirty Nine Steps with Robert Powell, which was partly filmed in the Kettleholm area.

Dumfriesshire

Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries (Siorrachd Dhùn Phris in Gaelic) is lieutenancy area and historic county of Scotland.

It borders Kirkcudbrightshire to the west, Ayrshire to the north-west, Lanarkshire, Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire to the north, and Roxburghshire to the east. To the south is the coast of the Solway Firth, and the English county of Cumberland.

Dumfries has three subdivisions - Annandale, Eskdale and Nithsdale.

For purposes of local government, it is combined with Galloway to form the council area of Dumfries and Galloway.

Geography

The coastline measures 21 miles (34 km). The county slopes very gradually from the mountainous districts of the Southern Uplands in the north, down to the sea; lofty hills alternating in parts with stretches of tableland or rich fertile holms. At various points within a few miles of the Solway are tracts of moss land, like Craigs Moss, Lochar Moss and Longbridge Moor in the west, and Nutberry Moss in the east, all once under water, but now largely reclaimed.

Dumfriesshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Dumfriesshire was a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of Great Britain (at Westminster) from 1708 to 1801 and in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (also at Westminster) from 1801 until 2005. It was known as Dumfries from 1950. It was redistributed to Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and Dumfries and Galloway as part of a major reorganisation of Scottish constituencies.

It elected one Member of Parliament (MP) using the first-past-the-post voting system.

Members of Parliament

MPs 1708–1832

MPs 1832–2005

¹ Dr Hunter was elected in 1929 as a Liberal candidate, but in the split after the 1931 general election, he joined the National Liberals.

Election results

Elections of the 1880s

Elections of the 1890s

Elections of the 1900s

Elections of the 1910s

Elections of the 1920s

Elections of the 1930s

Elections of the 1940s

Elections of the 1950s

Elections of the 1960s

Elections of the 1970s

Elections of the 1980s

Dumfriesshire (Parliament of Scotland constituency)

Before the Act of Union 1707, the barons of the sheriffdom or shire of Dumfries (also called Nithsdale) and the stewartry of Annandale elected commissioners to represent them in the unicameral Parliament of Scotland and in the Convention of Estates. After 1708, Dumfriesshire returned one member to the House of Commons of Great Britain and later to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom..

List of shire commissioners

During the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, the sheriffdom of Dumfries was represented by one Member of Parliament in the Protectorate Parliament at Westminster.

After the Restoration, the Parliament of Scotland was again summoned to meet in Edinburgh.