Old Photograph Graemeshall Mansion House Scotland

Old photograph of a Graemeshall Mansion House in Holm, Orkney Islands, Scotland. Dating back to 1626, Graemeshall Mansion House is the former home of the Lairds of Graemeshall. The lairds of eighteenth century Orkney were a local elite, whose more enterprising members showed some capacity to initiate or obstruct changes in accordance with their own interests. At first they were usually merchant lairds of Scottish descent and connections, episcopalian and Jacobitein outlook, still feuding among themselves and restive under the lordship of the Earl of Morton who held the Earldom estates of Orkney and Shetland.



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