Old Photograph George John Douglas Campbell Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll in Edinburgh, Scotland. John, born 30th of 30 April 1823, died 24th April 1900, was a Scottish peer and Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century. He was born at Ardencaple Castle, Dunbartonshire, the second but only surviving son of John Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll, and his second wife Joan Glassel, the only daughter of John Glassel. He succeeded his father as duke in 1847. With his death he became also hereditary Master of the Household of Scotland and Sheriff of Argyllshire. He was married three times. He married firstly Lady Elizabeth Georgiana, eldest daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland, in 1844. They had six sons and seven daughters. Their fifth son Lord Colin Campbell was a politician. Their daughter, Edith, married Henry Percy, 7th Duke of Northumberland. Elizabeth died aged 53 in May 1878. In 1881, Argyll married Amelia Maria, daughter of the Right Reverend Thomas Claughton, Bishop of St Albans, and widow of Augustus Anson. She died aged 50 in January 1894. In 1895, Argyll took Ina, daughter of Archibald McNeill, as his third wife. There were no children from either the second or third marriage. Argyll died at Inveraray Castle in April 1900, six days before his 77th birthday, and was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, John. His third wife survived him by a quarter of a century, dying in December 1925.



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Old Photograph Archibald Campbell Tait Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Archibald Campbell Tait in Edinburgh, Scotland. Archibald, born 21st of December 1811, died 3rd of December 1882, was an Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England. Born in Edinburgh, he was educated at the Royal High School and at the Edinburgh Academy, where he was twice elected dux. His parents were Presbyterians but he early turned towards the Scottish Episcopal Church. He was confirmed in his first year at Oxford. In 1842, he became an undistinguished but useful successor to Arnold as headmaster of Rugby School where one of his pupils was Lewis Carroll, and a serious illness in 1848, the first of many, led him to welcome the comparative leisure that followed upon his appointment to the deanery of Carlisle in 1849. His move to Canterbury in 1868, having already refused the archbishopric of York in 1862, constituted a recognition of his work but made no break in it. His last years were interrupted by illness and saddened by the death in 1878 of his only son, Craufurd, and of his wife.



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Old Photograph John Scott Russell Glasgow Scotland

Old photograph of John Scott Russell in Glasgow, Scotland. John was born on the 9th of May 1808, in Parkhead, Glasgow, and died 8th of June 1882, in Ventnor, Isle of Wight. He was the son of Reverend David Russell and Agnes Clark Scott. He spent one year at St. Andrews University in Fife before transferring to Glasgow University. It was while at Glasgow University that he added his mother's maiden name, Scott, to his own, to become John Scott Russell. He graduated from Glasgow University in 1825 at the age of 17 and moved to Edinburgh where he taught mathematics and science at the Leith Mechanics' Institute, achieving the highest attendance in the city. He became a famed Scottish civil engineer, naval architect and shipbuilder who built the Great Eastern in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

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Old Photograph John MacWhirter Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of John MacWhirter in Edinburgh, Scotland. John, born on 27th of March, died on 28 of January 1911, was a Scottish landscape painter. He was the third of four children. He attended a school in Colinton, and after his father's death was apprenticed to Oliver and Boyd, booksellers in Edinburgh. He stayed there for only a few months and then in 1851 enrolled at the Trustees Academy under Robert Scott Lauder and John Ballantyne. He spent long periods sketching and studying nature outdoors. His first painting to be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy at age 14, was Old Cottage at Braid. In 1880, he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Scottish Academy. Exploring and painting abroad he visited Italy, Sicily, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey, Norway and the U.S.A. the Alps being a great inspiration. He moved to London in 1867 and on 4 May 1893 was elected a Royal Academician.



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Old Photograph William Calder Marshall Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of William Calder Marshall in Edinburgh, Scotland. William, born 18th of March 1813, died 16th of June 1894, was a Scottish sculptor. Born in Edinburgh, he attended the Royal High School and Edinburgh University before enrolling at the Royal Academy school in London in 1834, where he won the silver medal. He studied under Francis Chantrey and Edward Hodges Baily, and then, in 1836 went to Rome to pursue his study of classical sculpture, staying for two years.



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Old Photograph Sir Andrew Clark Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Sir Andrew Clark in Edinburgh, Scotland. Andrew born 28th of October 1826, died on 6th of November 1893, was a Scottish physician and pathologist. He was was born in Aberdeen, the illegitimate son of Amelia Anderson and Andrew Clark. His father, who also was a physician, died when he was only a few years old. After attending school in Aberdeen, he was sent by his guardians to Dundee, attending the High School of Dundee and was then apprenticed to a pharmacist. Upon returning to Aberdeen he began his medical studies in the University there. Soon, however, he went to Edinburgh, where in the extra-academical school he had a student's career of the most brilliant description, ultimately becoming assistant to Dr. John Hughes Bennett in the Pathology Department of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and assistant demonstrator of anatomy to Robert Knox. But symptoms of tuberculosis brought his academic life to a close and, in the hope that the sea might benefit his health, he joined the medical department of the Royal Navy in 1848. In 1853 he was the successful candidate for the newly instituted post of curator to the museum of the London Hospital. In 1854, he became a member of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1858 a fellow, and then went in succession through all the offices of honour the College has to offer, ending in 1888 with the presidency, which he continued to hold until his death.



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Old Photograph James Hall Nasmyth Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of James Hall Nasmyth in Edinburgh, Scotland. James, born on 19th of August 1808, died on 7th of May 1890, was a Scottish engineer and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer. His father Alexander Nasmyth was a landscape and portrait painter in Edinburgh, where James was born. One of Alexander's hobbies was mechanics and he employed nearly all his spare time in his workshop where he encouraged his youngest son to work with him in all sorts of materials. In memory of his renowned contribution to the discipline of mechanical engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering building at Heriot-Watt University, in his birthplace of Edinburgh, is called the James Nasmyth Building.

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Old Photograph Parish Church Auchinleck Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church in Auchinleck, Ayrshire, Scotland. There has been a church on this site since the 12th century. The present building, designed by James Ingram, was begun in 1833 and was funded by the Boswell family. The bell tower, designed by Robert Ingram, was added 1897. James Chrystal, a Moderator of the Church of Scotland, served as Minister for over 60 years. In the churchyard is the Boswell Aisle of 1754.

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Old Photograph Parish Church Kilbirnie Scotland

Old photograph of the parish church in Kilbirnie in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Previously known as The Barony Church, after the barony that had been obtained by John Craufurd of Kilbirnie in 1641, the church is built on the site of a 6th century monastic cell. The town of Kilbirnie derives its name from the church. The name is Gaelic in origin and means Church of St Brendan.



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Old Photograph David Octavius Hill Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of David Octavius Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. David was born in 1802 in Perth. His father, a bookseller and publisher, helped to re-establish Perth Academy and David was educated there as were his brothers. He became a Scottish painter and arts activist, and formed Hill and Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. He died on the 17th of May 1870.

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Old Photograph Joseph Bell Edinburgh Scotland

Old photograph of Joseph Bell in Edinburgh, Scotland. Joseph, born 2nd of December 1837, died 4th of October 1911, was a Scottish lecturer at the medical school of the University of Edinburgh in the 19th century. He is perhaps best known as an inspiration for the literary character Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle met Bell in 1877, and served as his clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Doyle later went on to write a series of popular stories featuring the fictional character Sherlock Holmes, who Doyle stated was loosely based on Bell and his observant ways.



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Old Photograph Duncraggan Scotland

Old photograph of cottages in Duncraggan located to the South of Brig o' Turk, Trossachs, Scotland.



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Old Photographs Ballikinrain Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Ballikinrain Castle located in the Parish of Killearn not far from Stirling, Scotland. This Scottish castle was built in 1868 for Sir Archibald Orr-Ewing, a Conservative Party politician. Orr-Ewing was Member of Parliament for Dunbartonshire from 1868 to 1892, and was created a baronet on 8 March 1886. He commissioned David Bryce to design a new house in the Scottish Baronial style, for his large estate. The castle was burned out in June 1913, the blaze being attributed to suffragettes, causing £100,000 of damage. It was rebuilt in 1916.

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Tour Scotland Video Callum Wallace Never Be The Sun Wheel Inn Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Callum Wallace singing a cover version of Never Be The Sun by Donagh Long on visit to a pub in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland.

You'll never be the sun,
Turning in the sky.
And you won't be the moon above us
On a moonlit night.
And you won't be the stars in heaven
Although they burn so bright,
But even on the deepest ocean
You will be the light.
You may not always shine as you
Barefoot over stone.
You might be so long together
Or you might walk alone.
And you wont find that love comes easy
But that love is always right.
So even when the dark clouds gather
You will be the light.

And if you lose a part inside
When love turns 'round on you
Leaving the past behind
Is knowing you'll do
Like you always do
Holding you blind,
Keeping you true.

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Tour Scotland Video Callum Wallace Leezie Lindsay Wheel Inn Scone Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Callum Wallace singing Leezie Lindsay on visit to the Wheel Inn in Scone by Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This traditional Scottish song is about a highland Laird who courts Leezie Lindsay in Edinburgh, after his mother had warned him not to hide his highland origins. Her family warns him off, but her maid encourages her. She finds the highlands hard, but finally he brings her to his family, where he is a lord, and makes her the lady of a great castle.

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Old Photographs Railway Station Kilconquhar Scotland

Old photograph of the railway station in Kilconquhar, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. This Scottish railway station was on the route from Leven to St Andrews and closed in 1964.

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Old Photograph Ardoch House Scotland

Old photograph of Ardoch House by Braco, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish house, now demolished, was built by William Stirling in 1826. William was born in Dunblane on 15 October 1772, the eldest son of James Stirling, wright and cabinetmaker.



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Old Photograph Saddell House Scotland

Old photograph of Saddell House located on the east side of the Kintyre peninsula Argyll, Scotland. This Scottish house is thought to have been built in 1774 by Colonel Donald Campbell of Glensaddell.

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Old Photograph Balhary House Scotland

Old photograph of Balhary House near Alyth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish house was built for John Smyth by John Carver of Kinloch in 1817. John Carver was born on 11 November 1834, the son of John Carver of Carverfield, Kinloch who died 27 February 1858 and the cousin of the much older David Carver who practised from Kinloch throughout his career. His mother was Elizabeth Henderson. John was trained as an architect by his father but was also apprenticed as a joiner before entering the office of an Edinburgh architect: the style of his draughtsmanship suggests that of David Bryce. He returned to Meigle to take over his father's practice in the mid-1850s. Latterly he is described in census as an architect with two assistants and also as a farmer of 7 acres. The parish church at Coupar Angus shows Carver to have been a very able Gothic designer while the City of Glasgow Bank at Kirriemuir showed an original if idiosyncratic approach to Scottish Baronial. Although he designed a few large houses his practice seems to have consisted mainly of secondary estate work.



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Old Photograph Dall House Scotland

Old photograph of Dall House located on the south shore of Loch Rannoch near Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, Scotland. The estate here dates back to 1347. Dall House was built later and existed as a principal seat of the Clan Robertson until early last century. The building is a romantically styled Scots Baronial mansion house designed by architect Thomas Mackenzie.



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Old Photograph Thatched Cottage Clubhouse Colonsay Scotland

Old photograph of the thatched clubhouse on the golf course on the Island of Colonsay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland. The 18 hole golf course is a natural links course in a spectacular position by Machrins Bay. Colonsay is an island in the Inner Hebrides, located north of Islay and south of Mull. Colonsay is the ancestral home of Clan Macfie and the Colonsay branch of Clan MacNeil.



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