John Crerar
Extract from MS249 The Atholl Experience
People of Atholl: John Crerar, 1750-1840
Illustration:The Keeper John Crerar and his
Pony by Sir Edwin Landseer. Oil on board, 1824 ©
Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Perth & Kinross Council
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Head Forester and Gamekeeper, ".
. . the king of sportsmen and good fellows . . . Mr John Crerar
entered the Duke of Atholl's service in 1776. He was an
honest, faithful, and most attached adherent, of astonishingly
active powers, and possessed of admirable skill in stalking and
shooting the deer; always selecting the finest harts.
He was also a composer of music, and many a dance have the lads and
lasses had to the sound of my old friend's violin. He is
universally beloved and now resides on his pension at Pulney,
Lochside [Dunkeld]. The members of the Curling club of
Dunkeld lately presented him with a silver quaich upon the occasion
his attaining his ninetieth year, and as a token of their affection
for him, and their admiration of the skill and ardour which he so
long displayed in all many games." |
Source: William Scrope,
The Art of Deer
Stalking (1847
) in The Atholl Experience, Vol 9,
p.8
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