Church And Cemetery With Music On History Visit To Meigle Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video of photographs, with Scottish music, on an ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to the church and cemetery in Meigle, Perthshire. Meigle was once home to a parish church, the Episcopalian church of St Margaret’s and a United Free church. This was quite unusual at the time, especially for such a small town. Over time the United Free church was abandoned and the St Margaret’s church was demolished leaving the town with only one church, the Parish Church, which continues to serve the community today despite being ravaged by a fire in the 1860s. The nearest town is Forfar in neighbouring Angus. Other smaller settlements nearby are Balkeerie, Kirkinch and Kinloch. Meigle is accessed from the north and south via the B954 road, and from the East and West by the A94 road. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, from nearby Belmont Castle, born 1836, died 1908, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908, is buried in the cemetery. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman was born on 7 September 1836 at Kelvinside House in Glasgow as Henry Campbell, the second son and youngest of the six children born to Sir James Campbell of Stracathro, born 1790, died 1876, and his wife Janet Bannerman, born 1799, died 1873. Sir James Campbell had started work at a young age in the clothing trade in Glasgow, before going into partnership with his brother in 1817 to found J.& W. Campbell & Company., a warehousing, general wholesale and retail drapery business. Sir James was elected as a member of Glasgow Town Council in 1831 and stood as a Conservative candidate for the Glasgow constituency in the 1837 and 1841 general elections, before being appointed to serve as the Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1840 to 1843. In April 1868, at the age of thirty one, Campbell-Bannerman stood as a Liberal candidate in a by-election for the Stirling Burghs constituency, narrowly losing to fellow Liberal John Ramsay. However, at the general election in November of that year, Campbell-Bannerman defeated Ramsay and was elected to the House of Commons as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Stirling Burghs, a constituency that he would go on to represent for almost forty year. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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