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Old Photograph Church Duddingston Scotland
Old photograph of the church in Duddingston located next to Holyrood Park in the East of Edinburgh, Scotland. The church was built in or around 1124 by Dodin, a Norman knight, on land granted to Kelso Abbey by King David I of Scotland. Given its proximity to central Edinburgh, Duddingston has long been a favourite location for many of the city’s artists and professionals. The novelist Walter Scott was ordained an elder at Duddingston in 1806. A famous and widely admired minister in the early 19th century, 1805 to 1840, was the Reverend John Thomson, a notable painter and friend of Raeburn and Turner. He referred to his parishioners, and large family, as " ma bairns" and hence one possible explanation of the popular Scottish expression " We’re a' Jock Tamson’s bairns. " He was replaced in 1841 by James Macfarlane who was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1865.
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