Tour Scotland photograph of the Town Hall Clock in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The Town Hall was built through public subscription as a memorial to Captain Aytoun of Glendevon who introduced a pure water supply to the town in the 1830s. Captain Chadwick Marriot Walker Aytoun, usually known as Marriot, was born in Inchdairnie, Fife, on the 18th March 1787. He was the son of Major General Roger Aytoun, 9th Laird of Inchdairnie, and Jean Sinclair. His elder brother was John Aytoun, the 10th Laird. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1802. By 1812 he had been promoted to the rank of Captain. He married Eliza Wardlaw Miller in Edinburgh in April 1823. He was a Lieutenant for Fife and a Justice of the Peace for Fife & Perthshire. He and his wife owned several properties around Freuchie, near Falkland, including three mills and the lands and woodlands of Purin. Marriot’s in-laws, the Rutherford family, owned Glendevon Estate, which included Glendevon House and the castle, hence Captain Aytoun of Glendevon.
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