Spring Road Trip Drive To Newburgh Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, to Newburgh by the Firth of Tay in North, Fife. For some time, Newburgh's industries chiefly consisted of the making of linen, linoleum floorcloth, oilskin fabric and quarrying. There was for many years a net and coble fishery on the Firth Of Tay, mainly for salmon and sea trout. The harbour area was used originally for boatbuilding and the transshipment of cargoes to Perth for vessels of over 200 tons. Raw materials for making linoleum such as cork and linseed oil were also imported at the Factory Pie". Aggregates from the Whin Stone quarry were also shipped from Bell's Pier. Robert Hunter, was born in 1823 in Newburgh. He became the lead editor of the Encyclopædic Dictionary, which he produced in seven volumes between 1879 and 1888. In addition, he was an ordained minister and missionary for the Free Church of Scotland, and a notable geologist, becoming a Fellow of the Geological Society, was born in Newburgh, Fife in 1823 to John Mackenzie Hunter of Portpatrick, Wigtownshire, an excise officer and Agnes Strickland of Ulverston, Lancashire, England. He was educated at the Grammar School, Aberdeen where he came first in the open exam for university bursaries and thus went to Marischal College at the University of Aberdeen. He studied Latin, Greek, Mathematics and Natural Science, frequently coming first in the exams. Around 1843 he studied Divinity for at least one year at New College, Edinburgh. As a probationer Hunter taught at the Sunday School in the West Free Church in Coatbridge. He left in November 1846, having been ordained as a minister in the Free Church of Scotland to work as a missionary in Nagpur in India, as an assistant to Rev Stephen Hislop. He arrived in Nagpur early in 1847. Both men were keen geologists, and on their missionary travels they both recorded the local geology and fossils. Both of them wrote a number of geological papers, which were read in their absence at the Geological Society of London. In 1855 Hunter was forced by ill health to return to Britain. In 1882 Hunter built a house, Forest Retreat, now Forest Villa, on Staples Road, in the hilly part of Loughton, Essex later called by some Little Cornwall. The house had views over Epping Forest and the Roding Valley.[6] On 23 February 1997, for the centenary of Hunter's death, Loughton Town Council placed a blue plaque on the house with the inscription " The Reverend Robert Hunter, born 1823, died 1897 Lexicographer and Naturalist lived here ". He died at the house in 1897. He is buried in the City of London Cemetery.

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