Old Travel Blog Photograph Dunnikier Park Kirkcaldy Fife Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of a mother and children walking in Dunnikier Park in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. Major James Townsend Oswald, Dunnikier, died in his town house, London, on 2nd June 1893, in his 72nd year. He succeeded to the estate of Dunnikier in 1840 on the death of his father, Sir John Oswald. In 1848 he married Miss ellen octavia Miles of Leigh Court, Somersetshire, England. He served with the Grenadier Guards, Atholl Highlanders and was one of the founders and main supporters of the Fife Light Horse. he contested Kirkcaldy Burghs on 1874 and Fife County in 1880 in the Conservative interests but was defeated on both occasions. He was an office bearer of ST Peter's Episcopal Church.



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