Old Photographs Kames Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Kames Castle near Port Bannatyne, Isle of Bute, Scotland. Originally the seat of the Bannatyne family, Kames is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Scottish houses. Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne, born 1743, died 1833, was a distinguished lawyer and judge in Edinburgh. He lost his fortune and was forced to sell Kames in 1812. Kames was the birthplace, and early home of the critic and essayist John Sterling. Thomas Carlyle in his biography refers to the castle as " a kind of dilapidated baronial residence to which a small farm was then attached. "

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