Old Photograph Kilmory Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kilmory Castle, also known as Kilmory House, located just to the south of Lochgilphead, Argyll, Scotland. A house may have stood here as early as the 14th century. The Campbells built a house, or extended the existing one, between 1816 and 1820. Eliza Campbell, the eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, married Sir John Orde, 2nd Baronet in 1824. He purchased the estates following the death of his father in law in 1828 and of his wife in 1829. Orde demolished the modest old Campbell house and replaced it with the grand Gothic style mansion designed by architect Joseph Gordon Davis. Sir John Powlett Orde was born on 9th June 1803 at Gloucester Place, St Marylebone, London, England, the son of Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a BA. He married Eliza Campbell, eldest daughter and co-heir of Peter Campbell, of Kilmory, Argyll, on 15 June 1826. They had one son and three daughters. His father in law died in Jamaica in 1828 and upon the death of his wife in 1829 he inherited the estates in Jamaica and Scotland. He remarried in 1832 to Beatrice Edwards. Orde rebuilt Kilmory Castle in a Gothic style to a design by architect Joseph Gordon Davis, and remodelled the grounds with the aid of William Jackson Hooker. Kilmory is now the headquarters of Argyll and Bute Council. He was succeeded by his son Sir John William Powlett Orde who, in 1880, obtained Royal Licence to assume the surname of Campbell Orde


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