Tour Scotland 4K Winter travel video, with Scottish music, of a sunny and very cold, road trip drive including on a single track road passed the Free Church on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Collessie in North Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. By the meteorological calendar, the first day of Winter is always 1st December in Scotland; ending on 28th of February. Weather forecast today was for temperatures to remain below freezing but will be mostly dry with some snow and ice and widespread hard overnight frosts where skies are clear. Collessie is located South of Newburgh in Fife. Sir William Oliphant Hutchison is buried in Collessie graveyard. Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Hutchison was a scholar at Kirkcaldy High School, and subsequently at Rugby School. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912. On leaving he started the Edinburgh Group, holding exhibitions for three consecutive years, with Eric Robertson, Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith, Dorothy Johnstone, Mary Newbery,and David Macbeth Sutherland who later became Principal at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Hutchison also worked and studied in Paris, France, for a while, mainly painting portraits though also producing landscape and figure paintings. Hutchison enlisted during the First World War serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery and being stationed in Malta, later being badly wounded in France. After demobilization in 1918, he and his wife occupied a studio flat in Edinburgh until 1921, before moving to London, England. Here he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world. Hutchison was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943, from all accounts being an excellent director. Though a great traditionalist he encouraged those who tended to the avant garde. The school maintained an interest in those staff and students serving during World War II, sending them gifts and cards. He served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1950 to 1959 and was knighted in 1953. He died on 5 February 1970 at his home at 30 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, England. An ancient Pictish Scottish family was the first to use the name Kinneck. It is a name for someone who lived in the barony of Kinloch, which is located at the head of Rossie Loch in the parish of Collessie in Fife. The surname Kinneck belongs to the category of habitation names, which are derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Part of the road is only wide enough for one vehicle. It has special passing places. If you see a vehicle coming towards you, or the driver behind wants to overtake, try to pull into a passing place on your left, or wait opposite a passing place on your right. Give way to vehicles coming uphill whenever you can. If necessary, reverse until you reach a passing place to let the other vehicle pass. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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