Glen Lochay On Visit To The Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, of Glen Lochay on ancestry visit to the Scottish Highlands. The Glen is a narrow valley of Breadalbane stretching for about for about 20 miles East to West along the greater part of the course of the River Lochay which rises to the north of Crianlarich and flows eastwards to Loch Tay. Breadalbane is a mountainous district which gave its name to the former estate of the Earls and Marquises of Breadalbane, extending from the North West of modern Perthshire, across Stirling and Argyll & Bute. The name Breadalbane derives from the Gaelic Bràghaid Albainn, meaning the high country of Scotland. Lieutenant General John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane, born 30 March 1762, died 29 March 1834, was known as John Campbell until 1782 and as The Earl of Breadalbane and Holland between 1782 and 1831. He was the son of Colin Campbell of Carwhin by Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Archibald Campbell, of Stonefield. He was a great-grandson of Colin Campbell of Mochaster, younger son of Sir Robert Campbell, 3rd Baronet, of Glenorchy, and uncle of John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland. He was educated at Winchester College in Hampshire, England. In January, 1782, at age 19, Campbell succeeded his kinsman in the earldom of Breadalbane and Holland. This was a Scottish peerage and did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1784 he was elected as one of the sixteen Scottish Representative Peers to sit in the House of Lords. The same year he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society. Lord Breadalbane and Holland raised the Breadalbane Fencibles Regiment, in which he served as a lieutenant colonel. He became colonel in 1802, a major general in 1809 and a lieutenant-general in 1814. In 1806 he was created Baron Breadalbane, of Taymouth Castle in Perthshire, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which entitled him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. In 1831 he was further honoured when he was made Earl of Ormelie and Marquess of Breadalbane in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Lord Breadalbane married Mary Gavin, daughter of David Gavin, of Langton House, Berwickshire, in 1793. They had one son and two daughters. One daughter, Lady Mary Campbell, married Richard Temple Grenville, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. He died at Taymouth Castle, Perthshire, in March 1834, aged 71, and was succeeded by his only son, John, Earl of Ormelie. The Marchioness of Breadalbane died in September 1845. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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