Tour Scotland Video Camperdown House Dundee

Tour Scotland video of Camperdown House in Camperdown Park on ancestry visit to Dundee, Scotland. Camperdown House was erected by Admiral Duncan's son and heir, Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Duncan of Camperdown. It was constructed between 1824 to 1828 to designs by a leading Edinburgh architect, William Burn, born 1789, died 1870. The family : Robert Dundas, 2nd Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, was actually created an Earl by King William IV in 1830, a retrospective honouring of Admiral Duncan. The title only lasted three generations, with both the third and fourth earls of Camperdown being brothers, the fourth earl dying childless in 1933. The last occupant of the house was their cousin, Georgiana Wilhelmina, Dowager Countess of Buckinghamshire, who died in 1937. The house contents were sold in a four day auction in 1941 and the house and estate were purchased by Dundee Corporation in 1946.

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