Parish Church And Graveyard On Visit To Methven Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video of the parish church and graveyard on visit to Methven, Perthshire. Methven Parish Church has a tower and spire erected by public subscription in 1826. The Graham Mausoleum by Methven Church in the cemetery is the burial vault for General Thomas Graham of Balgowan, Lord Lynedoch, and his wife who was the Honourable Mary Cathcart, daughter of Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart. Deeply affected by the death of his wife, Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, commissioned a Mausoleum to her memory in the kirk yard at Methven, Perthshire. This gave the architect James Playfair, a chance to put to practice his most advanced ideas and the resultant design in the form of a gigantic sarcophagus is truly amazing for its period. After a long life Lord Lynedoch joined his wife in her last resting place in 1848. The Mausoleum is the free standing building in front of the church. The Battle of Methven took place in 1306 between Scottish forces led by King Robert the Bruce and English forces led by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and resulted in a resounding win for the English. The surname Methven was first found in Perthshire, Gaelic: Siorrachd Pheairt, former county in the present day Council Area of Perth and Kinross, located in central Scotland, where they were granted lands by Malcolm Canmore, King of Scotland, in 1069 in the Barony of Methven. Spelling variations of this family name include: Methuen, Methven, Methfyn, Methfen and others. John Methven settled in Charles Town, America, in 1767; Alexander Methven arrived in South Carolina, America, in 1807; Isobel Methven arrived in America in 1855. Robert Methven Petrie was born on May 15, 1906 in Scotland, but emigrated to Canada with his parents at the age of five. He grew up in Victoria, British Columbia and studied physics and mathematics at the University of British Columbia. He began working summer jobs at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and became fascinated with astronomy. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 1932. He taught there until 1935, when he joined the staff of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. In 1951 he became its director. He extensively studied spectroscopic binaries. The crater Petrie on the Moon is named after him. The Canadian Astronomical Society established the R. M. Petrie Prize Lecture to honour his astrophysical research. He died on April 8, 1966 All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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