Tour Scotland Winter snow travel video of a sunny, but very cold, road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Scone, East on the A94 road through Balbeggie and Burrelton to visit Coupar Angus, Perthshire. The A94 is relatively fast and wide road that passes through the twin villages of Burrelton and Woodside, before entering Coupar Angus. The A94 was originally a primary route from Perth to Stonehaven. Now, it's a quieter non primary tourist route passing through the flat farmland Strathmore and East Perthshire, but still the shortest route between Perth and Forfar and an alternative to the main A90 via Dundee.
William Nairne Clark, one of the two protagonists that fought the first recorded duel in Western Australia, was born in Coupar Angus in 1804. Clark and his opponent, George French Johnson, faced each other in Fremantle, Western Australia, on the morning of Friday 6 June 1832. Johnson was fatally wounded in the hip in the encounter. Clark was subsequently charged with, and acquitted of, Johnson's manslaughter. Clark, who had trained as a lawyer, emigrated to Western Australia on the convict ship Eliza in 1830. He initially practised as a lawyer before founding the Swan River Guardian newspaper in 1836. James Stirton, physician and leading expert on mosses and lichen was born in 1833 in Coupar Angus. Coupar Angus is the birthplace of Jock Sutherland, coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 1946 to 1947. During the coronavirus pandemic I have been a volunteer driver.
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