Old Travel Blog Photograph Kirkconnel Hall Ecclefechan Scotland

Old travel Blog photograph of Kirkconnel Hall in Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. This building was inherited by Archibald Arnott in the early 1800s. Archibald was a surgeon with the 11th dragoon regiment, and was posted to Saint Helena, where in 1821 he was called upon to attend Napoleon Bonaparte in his last illness, and he was there until his death on 5th May 1821. Before Dr Arnott left Saint Helena, he took a cutting of a Willow Tree which was growing next to Napoleons grave, and when he returned to Kirkconnel Hall, he planted it in the gardens, where it remains today.



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