Tour Scotland short travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the dining room on ancestry, genealogy, history visit Dumfries House in Ayrshire. The estate and an earlier house were originally called Lefnoreis or Lochnorris, owned by a branch of the Craufurds of Loudoun. The present house was built in the 1750s for William Dalrymple, 5th Earl of Dumfries, by John Adam and Robert Adam. In 1635 the estate was purchased from the Craufords by William Crichton, 2nd Earl of Dumfries , born 1598, died 1691. The estate, and the title, passed via his daughter to his grandson William Dalrymple Crichton, 5th Earl of Dumfries and 4th Earl of Stair, born 1699, died 1768. He commissioned the Adam brothers to design a new house for the estate. The house is noted for being one of the few such houses with much of its original 18th century furniture still present, including specially commissioned Thomas Chippendale pieces
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