Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of the interior of The Leng Chapel by Forgan on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Newport on Tay in North East Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. This beautiful memorial chapel was constructed between 1895 and 1897 by local architect Thomas Martin Cappon for the Leng family and in particular as a memorial for Lady Leng. The vaulted interior is faced with creamy Normandy stone and stained glass windows. The chapel is based largely on La Saint Chappelle in Paris, France, although on a smaller scale. The chapel was never intended to be a regular place of worship and is in fact non-denominational, which makes it a rare structure in Scotland with only a few other examples, such as the Mortuary Chapel in Arbroath. Sir John Leng, born 10 April 1828, died 13 December 1906, was a newspaper proprietor and Liberal Party politician in Scotland. He was born in Hull, England, the younger brother of Sir William Christopher Leng. In July 1851, Leng was selected from among 70 candidates as editor of the then-biweekly Dundee Advertiser. The paper was founded in 1801 but had fallen into a backward state. Leng soon raised the 'Advertiser' to high rank, both in local and imperial affairs. His wide practical knowledge of newspaper work enabled him to reorganise both the literary staff and machinery. The old premises were quickly found too small, and in 1859, he built the first portion of new premises in Bank Street, which, before his death, attained gigantic proportions. As early as 1852, Leng was made a partner by the proprietors of the Advertiser, and the imprint thenceforth bore the name of John Leng and Company. Leng proved to be a notable pioneer in other departments of journalistic enterprise. In May 1859, he founded the first half penny daily newspaper in Scotland, under the title of the Daily Advertiser, but the limited machinery then available compelled him to suspend that venture. In January 1858 he established the People's Journal, a weekly newspaper, which soon reached the largest circulation of any similar paper in Scotland. A literary weekly paper, the People's Friend, was founded by him in 1869, and he lived to see it reach a circulation which rivalled that of London periodicals of its kind. The Evening Telegraph, halfpenny daily newspaper, was started in 1877 and had a successful career, being amalgamated in 1900 with the Evening Post, another local paper. He visited the United States and Canada in 1876 and frequently toured in France, Germany and the Netherlands. His first western journey was recorded in a volume entitled 'America in 1876, and a visit to India in 1896 was detailed in his book Letters from India and Ceylon, a work that was translated and widely circulated in Germany. Two journeys in the Near East produced Some European Rivers and Cities in 1897 and Glimpses of Egypt and Sicily in 1902. A second American tour in 1905 was commemorated in Letters from the United States and Canada in 1905. In October 1906, he set out on a third tour to America but fell ill at Delmonte, California, and died there on 12 December 1906. His body was cremated and the ashes brought home and interred at Vicarsford cemetery, near Newport-on-Tay, Fife. Leng married twice: in 1851, to Emily, to the elder daughter of Alderman Cook of Beverley; she died at Kinbrae, Newport, Fife, in 1894, leaving two sons and four daughters. He had a chapel built in her memory in Vicarsford. He married in 1897, Mary, daughter of William Low, of Kirriemuir, who survived him. His grandson was the journalist John Leng Sturrock, who was MP for Montrose Burghs from 1918 to 1924. His daughter, Clara Beatrice Leng, died 1941, married the Dundee shipowner William Thomson, the brother of the publisher David Couper Thomson. Chapel includes the John Aytoun of, Inchdairnie memorial, John married Isobel Rollo, daughter of Robert Rollo, 4th Lord Rollo of Duncrub and Mary Woodside. On one wall of this beautiful building is an elaborate memorial inscription to Lady Leng, and a tribute to his second wife Mary and details of his own burial have been added later. On the opposite wall is a memorial panel naming the five Newport men who gave their lives in the Boer War, 1899 to 1902..
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