Old Photograph Road To Kildoon Hill Scotland

Old photograph of a horse and cart on the road to Kildoon Hill near Maybole in South Ayrshire, Scotland. The monument on the top of the hill was erected by public subscription in 1857 to the memory of Sir Charles Fergguson of Kilkerran, born 1800, died 1849. He was a Scottish lawyer, the eldest son of Sir James Fergusson, fourth baronet, by Jean, daughter of Sir David Dalrymple, baronet and he was born at Fort George, near Inverness in the Highlands. He was educated at Harrow in England, and became an advocate in 1822, practising at the Scottish bar until his father's death. In 1837, Fergusson succeeded to the estates of his grandfather, Lord Hailes, in East and Mid Lothian, and in 1838 to those of his father in Ayrshire, on which he constantly lived. He inherited Newhailes, and the Lordship and Barony of Hailes in 1839, on the death of his aunt, Miss Christian Dalrymple, when he also assumed the additional surname of Dalrymple. He died at Inveresk 18 March 1849.



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