Old photograph of Naughton House near Gauldry, Fife, Scotland. The house is set just to the south east of the remains of Naughton Castle which is reputed to have been built by Robert de Lundin, a natural son of William the Lion, in the early 13th century. It passed into the hands of the family of Hay who owned it until after the death of Sir James Hay at Flodden in 1513. His heiress, Janet, married Sir Peter Crichton, a prominent leader during the time of James V, and it is thought that he made additions to the castle. During the next century there were several changes of ownership, and eventually it passed to another branch of the Hay family until 1737 when it was sold to William Morison, the Bailie of Dundee. A drawing of the castle by John Kinloch in 1760 shows a traditional fortified tower house with an enclosure of trees in the foreground. Until 1793 the Morisons spent the winters in Belfield House in Cupar, and the summers in the two-storey house on Naughton Castle Rock. The mansion house was built from 1793 onwards by William's grandson, James Morison, and the parks and woodlands were laid out at this time. James' daughter, Isabel, succeeded in 1816; she married William Bethune and assumed the name Bethune-Morison after his death. Her only daughter died and Isabel left Naughton in 1850 to Adam Alexander Duncan, grandson of Viscount Duncan, and son of her daughter's former fiancee. The arboretum was started in the 1850s by the Duncans who planted trees from all over the world. Adam was succeeded in 1855 by his daughter Ada Morison-Duncan, later Mrs Anstruther- Duncan, who left Naughton to her cousin, Brigadier Henry Crawford, in 1932, subject to a friend's life tenancy. Brigadier Crawford took up residence at Naughton House in 1963. The property and house are now occupied by his elder son Captain J.H.D. Crawford.
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