Old photograph of the High Kirk in Stevenston in North Ayrshire, Scotland. The church was opened in 1833 during the ministry of the famous Reverend Dr. David Landsborough, whose son William, born in the manse in 1825, was one of Australia’s greatest explorers. Dr. Landsborough, a noted biologist as well as minister, led the Ayrshire ministers at the Disruption of 1843 and founded the Free Church of Scotland in Saltcoats. The town of Stevenston is named after Stephan Loccard or Lockhart, whose father obtained a grant of land from Richard de Morville, Lord of Cunninghame and Constable of Scotland, around 1170. The town is first mentioned in a charter of 1240. The town's main link with Robert Burns is that Mayville House here was the birthplace in 1768 of Miss Lesley Baillie. Robert Burns met her in 1792 and described her to a friend as " the most beautiful, most elegant woman in the world ". She inspired one or two of his love poems, in which she is described as, Bonnie Lesley.
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