Spring Road Trip Drive To Village Of Glamis Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes and drums music, from Coupar Angus, Perthshire, through Meigle on ancestry visit to the village of Glamis in Angus Region Glamis is a picturesque village built by John the 9th Earl of Strathmore, in the late 1700s. Built to relocate workers whose cottages had been removed during his redevelopment of Glamis Castle, the village still has the look and feel of an intended estate village despite more recent developments taking place. John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, born 17 July 1737, died 7 March 1776, was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne and one of the ancestors of Queen Elizabeth II. He was the son of Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and his wife, the former Jean Nicholsen. In 1760 Thomas took the Grand Tour of Europe, accompanied for the first several months by his college classmate Thomas Pitt, later the Baron Camelford. From March 1761 until he returned to England in June 1763 he had an affair with Costanza Scotti, Contessa Sanvitale. On 24 February 1767, at St George's Hanover Square Church he married the heiress Mary Eleanor Bowes, who was already possessed of her late father's estates such as Gibside. As per the stipulations of the will of the father of the bride, he assumed his wife's name of Bowes, a fairly common arrangement among the propertied classes that required an Act of Parliament.

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