Old Photograph Eadies Fountain Scotland

Old photograph of Eadies Fountain near Dufftown, in the heart of Speyside, Scotland. James Eadie was a brewer who made his fortune in Burton on Trent in England, and this drinking fountain was on his Scottish Estate. He was born in Blackford, Perthshire in 1827. He was one of 14 children born to William Eadie and Mary Stewart. His father was owner of a small brew house in Blackford and both parents ran a hotel and livery stable business in the town. In 1842, James was sent to live with an uncle in Staffordshire where he learned business skills and began supplying malt to brewers in Burton on Trent. In 1864 he established a brewery in Burton. He became quite rich. As a benefactor of Burton and several other towns, he funded chapels and public buildings including including this rather fine commemorative well at the foot of Ben Rinness. In his later years he became a Justice of the Peace and a Depute Lord Lieutenant of Banffshire. He died in 1904 at Glenrinnes House not quite six years after buying Glenrinnes Estate.



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