Tour Scotland short 4K Spring Easter Holiday Weekend travel video clip of the fountain in the garden on ancestry, genealogy visit to Megginch Castle, Perthshire, Britain, United Kingdom. Megginch Castle is a 15th century castle altered by Robert Adam in 1790. It was the family home of the late Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange. Jean Cherry Drummond of Megginch, 16th Baroness Strange was born on 17 December 1928 in London, England. Strange was educated at Oxenfoord Castle boarding school near Edinburgh, at St Andrews University in Fife, where she read English and history, and at Cambridge University in England She married Humphrey Evans, MC, a captain in the Mountain Artillery, in 1952. They both assumed the surname Drummond of Megginch when they moved to Megginch Castle. The couple had three sons and three daughters. Although the family home is the 17th century Megginch Castle in Perthshire, Scotland, the family title, Baron Strange, is in the English peerage. Her father, John Drummond, 15th Baron Strange, had spent many years attempting to terminate an abeyance that arose on the death of the Duke of Atholl in 1957; he was confirmed in the title in 1965. The title went into abeyance once again on his death in 1982, but it was terminated in Cherry's favour in 1986, and she made her maiden speech on 4 March 1987. Upon the Baroness's death the title was inherited by her eldest son, Adam. Strange wrote several romantic novels under the pen name herry Evans", including Love From Belinda, Lalage in Love, Creatures Great and Small and Love Is For Ever. As Cherry Drummond, she also wrote The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond, Marine Engineer, a biography of an intrepid aunt, Victoria Drummond, a goddaughter of Queen Victoria who was an engineer for 40 years from 1922, including with the Blue Funnel Line. Cherry Drummond died on 11 March 2005. 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.
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