Old Photograph Cultoquhey House Scotland

Old photograph of Cultoquhey House near Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. The Cultoquhey estate had since 1429 been owned by the Maxtone family, who added the name Graham in 1860 when they inherited another property owned by a relation of Thomas Graham of Balgowan, later Lord Lynedoch. The present house was was built some time after 1820. The most famous Maxtone Graham was Joyce Anstruther who married into the family in 1923. She was the daughter of Henry Torrens Anstruther and Eva Anstruther and spent her childhood in Whitchurch in Buckinghamshire, England. In 1923 she married Anthony Maxtone Graham, a broker at Lloyd's, with whom she had three children. In the 1930s she started to write for Punch magazine, and this brought her to the attention of The Times newspaper, where Peter Fleming asked her to write a series of columns for the paper, about " an ordinary sort of woman who leads an ordinary sort of life, rather like yourself ". The character she created, Mrs Miniver, proved a huge success, and the columns were subsequently collected into book form in 1939. Upon the outbreak of war, this book was used as the basis for a patriotic and sentimental film about Mrs Miniver, released in 1942, which won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.



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