Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on the A917 route on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Kingsbarns East, Neuk Of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Kingsbarns a village near the eastern coast of Fife, in an area known as the East Neuk, 6.5 miles south east of St Andrews and 3.6 miles north of Crail. The name derives from the area being the location of the barns used to store grain before being transported to the Palace at Falkland. Robert Adamson, born 1852, died 1902, philosopher and logician at the University of Glasgow, was born in Kingsbarns. His father Robert Adamson senior, died 1855 was a Scottish solicitor, active in Dunbar, Coldstream, and later in Edinburgh. His mother Mary Agnes Buist, born 1809, died 11 February 1876, was the daughter of David Buist, factor to George Baillie-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Haddington, born 1802, died 1870. Robert Adamson and Mary Agnes Buist were married on 21 November 1843 at Tyninghame, East Lothian, Haddingtonshire, Scotland. Robert was successful from the first. At the end of his school career he entered the University of Edinburgh at the age of fourteen, and four years later graduated with first-class honours in mental philosophy, with prizes in every department of the faculty of Arts. After a short residence at Heidelberg in 1871, where he began his study of German philosophy, he returned to Edinburgh as assistant first to Henry Calderwood, born 1830, died 1897, and later to Alexander Campbell Fraser, born 1819, died 1914. He joined the staff of the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1874 and studied widely in the Advocates' Library. In 1876 he went to England as successor to William Stanley Jevons, born 1835, died 1882, in the chair of logic and philosophy, at Owens College, Manchester. In 1883 he received the honorary degree of LL.D. In 1893 he went to the University of Aberdeen, and finally in 1895 to the chair of logic at the University of Glasgow, which he held till his death on 5 February 1902.
Alexander Peebles, born 1856, died 1934, who was a New Zealand prospector and mine owner, was born in Kingsbarns. Robert Arnot, born 1744, died 1808, was a Presbyterian minister, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, and professor of Divinity at St. Andrews University, he lived in Kingsbarns from 1800 until his death. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip
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