Autumn River Braan On Visit By Dunkeld Highland Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the River Braan in Craigvinean Forest on visit by Dunkeld in Highland Perthshire. Ossian's Hall, a Georgian structure, overlooks the River Braan. It is folly built on a rocky outcrop for the 2nd Duke of Atholl in 1757. James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl was born on 28 September 1690 in Edinburgh. He was the third son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, by Lady Catherine, daughter of William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton. In 1712, he was made captain of the grenadier company of the 1st Foot Guards. At the election of 1715, he was chosen M.P. for Perth, and he was re-elected in 1722. From 1737 to the general election of 1741, he sat in parliament both as an English baron and as a Scottish representative peer. On the approach of the highland army after the Jacobite rising of 1745, Atholl fled southwards, and his elder brother, the Marquis of Tullibardine, took possession of Blair Castle. Atholl, however, joined the army of the Duke of Cumberland in England, and, arriving with him in Edinburgh on 30 January 1746. He was the first to plant European Larch in Great Britain. He died at Dunkeld on 8 January 1764, in his seventy fourth year, and was buried at Inveresk. He was succeeded by in the barony of Strange by his daughter, Lady Charlotte, and in the Scottish titles by his nephew, John, the son of George Murray, a general in the Jacobite rising of 1745 which the second Duke did not join. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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