Tour Scotland Spring travel video of an April road trip drive, with Scottish music on a number of rural roads on visit to Dollar, Clackmannanshire. Scottish Gaelic: Dolair, it was once a place of residence of Mary, Queen of Scots. Dollar is twinned with the French town of La Ville aux Dames, which lies just outside Tours in the Loire Valley. The poet Robert Burns visited Craufurd Tait in Dollar in 1787, staying on the Harviestoun estate. There he was inspired to write the song The Banks of Devon. Dollar Academy school was founded by the Reverend Andrew Mylne, a leading educationalist of his day, following a bequest by Captain John McNabb, a local who was born in 1732 to a poor family, but who made his fortune at sea. McNabb captained, owned and leased out many ships over the decades and it is known that four voyages transported slaves to the West Indies in 1789, forty years before the Abolition Act of 1833. The school believes that it is important to recognise this aspect of its history and pupils are taught openly about McNabb’s link to slavery in several subjects in the Senior School. In order to understand the exact extent of John McNabb’s involvement, further research was commissioned, in collaboration with leading external advisors, in 2019. To be clear, Dollar Academy abhors slavery in all its forms. John McNabb died in 1802 and in his will he specified that the interest on half his estate was to provide “ a Charity or School for the parish of Dollar and shire of Clackmannan where I was born. ”
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