Old Photograph Erchless Castle Scotland

Old photograph of Erchless Castle located by the River Beauly in the Scottish Highlands, near Struy, West of the city of Inverness, Scotland. A building was built in the 13th century by the Bissetts, it came into the hands of the Chisholms in the 15th century, by the marriage of Alexander de Chisholme to Margaret, Lady of Erchless, and became their ancestral home. The existing building is dated to about 1600 as an L-plan tower house and underwent it alterations in the 19th century with the addition of a Baronial-style wing in 1895. After the death of the last surviving member of the direct line of Chisholms the estate was owned by the trustees of the late Lady Chisholm, Annie Cecilia Chisholm of Chisholm. In 1946 the Erchless Estate and castle were bought on behalf of Baron Siegfried Nikolai von Stackelberg and his wife Baroness Phyllis von Stackelberg. The funds came from the estate of her father George Roscoe, a member of the firm James Roscoe and Sons. The Estate continued in the ownership of the Trustees of George Roscoe until 1964, but the Valuation Roll for the following year names the new Lairdship of Erchless estate as being held by the family of Sir Lawrence Robson, founder of accountancy firm Robson Rhodes. On the death of Sir Lawrence Robson in 1982, the castle was inherited by his son, Erik Maurice William Robson.



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