Road Trip Drive From Comrie To Visit Crieff In Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of an early Autumn road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Comrie, East on the A85 road, on ancestry, history, visit to Crieff in Highland Perthshire. For a number of centuries Highlanders came south to Crieff to sell their black cattle whose meat and hides were avidly sought by the growing urban populations in Lowland Scotland and the north of England. The town acted as a gathering point or tryst for the Michaelmas cattle sale held each year and the surrounding fields and hillsides were black with the tens of thousands of cattle, some from as far away as Caithness and the Outer Hebrides. Daniel John Cunningham was born in the manse at Crieff, in 1819, the son of the Reverend John Cunningham and of his wife Susan Porteous Murray. He was a Scottish physician, zoologist, and anatomist, famous for Cunningham's Text-book of Anatomy and Cunningham's Manual of Practical Anatomy. He died unexpectedly at home, 18 Grosvenor Crescent in Edinburgh's West End, on 23 July 1909 and was buried with his wife, Elizabeth, and children near the eastern side of Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh.
Alexander Murray was born in Crieff, Perthshire, on 2 June 1810. He worked as a geologist in the United Kingdom and Canada, before moving to Newfoundland in 1864 to become the first director of the Geological Survey of Newfoundland. His first major task was to produce a reliable topographical map of the interior of the island. Murray did detailed work in the area between Hall's Bay and St. George's Bay, as well as the area surrounding Conception, Placentia and St. Mary's bays. He also mapped parts of the Great Northern Peninsula and central Newfoundland. Murray produced the first geological map of Newfoundland and his reports of rich resources in the island's interior were an important factor in the decision to build the trans-island railway in 1881. Poor health caused him to return to Scotland in 1883 where he died on 18 December 1884.
Ewan McGregor was born in Perth and raised in Crieff.

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