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Old Photograph Freeland House Scotland
Old photograph of Freeland House by Forgandenny in Perthshire, Scotland. The Freeland Estate was owned by Mr Collingwood Lindsay Wood and is now Strathallan School. He originally purchased the Ruthven estate in 1873, and added considerably to its wealth and size. If his only son, born in 1877, had lived, he would have inherited it all on his father’s death in 1906. However, Lindsay Wood’s wife, Francis, and their daughters stayed in residence for some years after his death, but the eventual decay of the estate and increasing debts forced the trustees to consider a somewhat forced sale. In 1917, the sale of the whole estate was made to Mr. Edwin Martin Stewart for £80,000. He was chairman of the Carntyne Iron and Steel Company Limited in Glasgow, and lived in Stirling with his family. Still a relatively young man, he unfortunately died at home in 1921, aged 51.
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