Tour Scotland photograph of the David Carnegie gravestone in the cemetery in Balquhidder, Scotland. David Carnegie, of Stronvar, born 3rd of May 1813, died 15th February 1890. David was a major landowner and benefactor in Balquhidder. He was the grandson of George Carnegie who fled to Sweden after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion. George established a very successful business in Gothenburg and became a wealthy man. David made his fortune from brewing in Gothenburg and also sugar refining. His second wife was his cousin, Susan. They had three children and decided to make their home in Scotland. In 1849 John Lorn Stewart sold the Glenbuckie estate to Carnegie. By this time a new Glenbuckie house had been built on the site of the present Stronvar House. The house was rebuilt on a much grander scale to the design of the architect David Bryce. Beautiful gardens were created and the estate was renamed Stronvar by Carnegie. He acquired several other areas of land including Stroneslaney and Gartnafuaran and built many houses in the village for his tenants, solid stone houses which are still there today. He gifted the Church, also designed by David Bryce, to the village in 1855 and also the school and schoolhouse in 1869 as well as the Reading Room.
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