Tour Scotland Travel Video Winter Drive On Country Roads To The Parish Church In Maddery Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of a sunny Winter road trip drive, with music, on narrow country roads from outside Aberuthven, to the Parish Church in Madderty on ancestry visit to Strathearn, Perthshire, Scotland. A simple harled church of 1668 was built in the stormy times of the covenanters; there is a date of 1668 on the west gable. The church was rebuilt in 1689 and the bell-cote added in 1801. The church was renovated in 1897 by architect G T Ewing who removed the gallery, added the porch and vestry and gave the building its round window in the west gable and the lancet windows in the side walls. The interior is mostly of the 1897 renovation. Dr Daniel Stewart MacLagan, was born on 3 June 1904 at Williamstone Farm in Madderty. He was popularly known as Dan MacLagan. He studied Agricultural Zoology at university and graduated in 1928. He spent a year doing research at Harvard University in America. On his return to Scotland he received a prestigious Carnegie Research Fellowship at Edinburgh University and gained his first doctorate. In 1934 he began lecturing at Aberdeen University and in 1936 received his second doctorate. In 1937 he moved to Durham University in England. In 1944 he returned to Scotland as Head of the Zoology Department at the West of Scotland Agricultural College in Glasgow. In 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He retired from academia in 1969 and returned to Madderty to run the family farm. He died on 3 February 1991 at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Edinburgh. On his death he bequeathed monies to run entomological lectures in Glasgow and money to the Macaulay Institute in Aberdeen to provide scholarships to young scientists.

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