Tour Scotland Autumn video of a shaft of light falling on the Falls Of Braan on visit to the Hermitage by
Dunkeld,
Perthshire,
Scotland. The Ossian's Hall folly above the falls was built on a rocky outcrop overlooking the River Braan for the 2nd Duke of Atholl in 1757. James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, born 28 September 1690, died 8 January 1764, styled Marquess of Tullibardine between 1715 and 1746, was a Scottish peer, and Lord Privy Seal. He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, the third son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, by Lady Catherine, daughter of William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton. In 1712, he was made captain of the grenadier company of the 1st Foot Guards. At the election of 1715, he was chosen Member of Parliament for Perth, and he was reelected in 1722. From 1737 to the general election of 1741, he sat in parliament both as an English baron and as a Scottish representative peer. On the approach of the highland army after the Jacobite rising of 1745, Atholl fled southwards, and his elder brother, the Marquis of Tullibardine, took possession of Blair Castle. Atholl, however, joined the army of the Duke of Cumberland in England, and, arriving with him in Edinburgh on 30 January 1746, went northwards. On 9 February, he sent a summons to his vassals to attend at Dunkeld and Kirkmichael and join the king's troops. On 6 April 1763, Atholl resigned the office of privy seal on being appointed keeper of the great seal in succession to Charles Douglas, Duke of Queensberry and Dover. He was also at the same time made lord justice general. He was allegedly the first to plant European Larch in Great Britain; one of a group of five near Dunkeld cathedral planted in 1738 is still alive.
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