Tour Scotland Video Beveridge Window Holy Trinity Church Dunfermline Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the Beveridge memorial stained glass window in the Holy Trinity Church at East Port on ancestry visit and trip to Dunfermline, Fife. Gifted by Erskine Beveridge in memory of his first wife Mary Owst. Erskine was a Scottish textile manufacturer, historian and antiquary and the owner of Erskine Beveridge & Co. Ltd., which had been founded by his father in 1832 and was the largest linen manufacturer in Dunfermline, Fife. Beveridge was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, serving as vice president of the latter from 1915 to 1918. The University of St Andrew's awarded him an honorary degree. He married twice, first in 1872 to Mary Owst, with whom he had six sons and a daughter, and second to Margaret Scott Inglis, with whom he had two sons. He was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church. Erskine was born 27 December 1851, and died on 10 August 1920.

Beveridge is a medieval Anglo Scottish surname. Introduced into the British Isles after the famous Norman Conquest of 1066, it has at least two possible origins. The first is from French word " beivre ", meaning to drink, the term being used to describe a drink bought to seal a bargain, the surname being a nickname for one who habitually concluded contracts in this way. Walter Beverage was a juror at St Andrews, Fife, whilst two centuries later in 1530, David Beverage was the official cup bearer to King James V of Scotland. Modern name spellings include Beverage, Beveridge, Bavridge, Bavidge, Belfrage, Berrige and others.

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