Tour Scotland Travel Video J M Barrie Birthplace Kirriemuir Angus

Tour Scotland travel video Blog of the birthplace of J. M. Barrie on ancestry visit to Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM, born 9th of May 1860 was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. Barrie died of pneumonia on 19th of June 1937 and is buried at Kirriemuir next to his parents and two of his siblings. He left the bulk of his estate, excluding the Peter Pan works, which he had previously given to Great Ormond Street Hospital, to his secretary Cynthia Asquith. His birthplace at 4 Brechin Road in Kirriemuir is maintained as a museum.

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