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Old Photograph North West Castle Stranraer Scotland
Old photograph of North West Castle in Stranraer, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Sir John Ross, a famous Scottish rear admiral and Arctic explorer, built the house and developed its grounds in 1820 after returning from the first in a series of Arctic expeditions aiming to solve the question of the Northwest Passage. In 1860, North West Castle became the home of Reverend Robert Cunningham, an influential figure in Scottish education during the 19th Century. Cunningham lived in the Castle after his retirement as Head Master of George Watson's College in Edinburgh and founder Head Master of the Edinburgh institution for Language and Mathematics, later known as Melville College, and of Blair Lodge School in Polmont. His move to North West Castle also came after his founding of the Free Church of Scotland following the Disruption in May 1843. Cunningham was resident at the Castle until his death in 1883.
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