Summer Road Trip Drive From Cupar On History Visit To Auchtermuchty Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish music, of a road trip drive from Cupar on ancestry, genealogy, history visit to Auchtermuchty village in Fife. Until 1975 Auchtermuchty was a royal burgh, established under charter of King James V in 1517. In the past, the linen industry was a major source of work in the town, but in the early 18th century the firm of John White was established, bringing the town its first foundry, there were two eventually. There was even a whisky distillery in operation from 1829 to 1929, when Prohibition in the U.S.A. led to its closure. The town war memorial is of note, and is an unusual design by the architect Reginald Fairlie, portraying a Scottish soldier with head bowed. The village was used as the location for Tannochbrae in the 1990s ITV series Dr. Finlay. Craig Reid and Charles Reid musicians and founders of the folk rock group The Proclaimers were born in Leith on 5 March 1962 and grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall and Auchtermuchty. When they lived in Auchtermuchty they attended Bell Baxter High School. James Ferrier was born on 22 October 1800 in Auchtermuchty. He emigrated to Canada in 1821 and established himself in Montreal, Quebec, as a successful Scots Quebecer merchant. He served as a city councillor of Montreal from 1841 to 1848. In 1842, Ferrier took the lead in establishing the High School of Montreal, supported by William Lunn, William Collis Meredith, the Rev. Henry Esson, and others, one of their purposes being to provide a solution to the growing influence of Anglicanism in education at the time. The new school opened in 1843. He became the fourth mayor of Montreal, holding office from 1844 to 1847. He served on the Legislative Council of the Province of Canada from 1847 until Confederation, after which he was appointed to the Senate of Canada by Royal Proclamation on 23 October 1867. He sat with the Conservative group and represented the Senatorial Division of Shawinegan until his death in 1888. From 1867 until his death he also served on the Legislative Council of Quebec, sitting for the division of Victoria. He was chancellor of McGill University from 1884 to 1888. He is commemorated by Ferrier Street in northwestern Côte-des-Neiges, Montreal. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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