Tour Scotland 4K Autumn travel video, with Scottish music, of a dreich morning road trip drive West on the A915 route on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Church Street in Upper Largo in the East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Dreich is a Scots word for dull and cloudy and rainy weather. The Church of Largo or Largauch was presented to the nuns of North Berwick, in 1160 and was re-dedicated in 1243. In a charter of 1502. This Scottish church was eventually dedicated to Saint Serf and belonged prior to the Reformation to the Abbey of Dunfermline. Between the years 1522 and 1539 the old church was rebuilt by the Archbishop of St Andrews and this building was later replaced in 1815 by the present church. Records show that here has been an established Church in the Parish for well over 1100 years, since the reign of King Angus of Scotland. Sir Andrew Wood, who became Lord High Admiral of Scotland. Following a series of successful naval engagements was granted the lands of Largo in 1490 by King James IV. The Durham family owned the lands of Largo from the mid 17th Century to the middle of the 19th Century. The most famous members of the family, and true brothers in arms, were James, born in 1754 who served in the army for 70 years, being made a general in 1830. His younger brother Philip was born in 1763, and after a lifetime of naval service including captaining the Defiance at Trafalgar, was made an admiral in 1830. William Joseph Eggeling was born, the son of a doctor, on 18 July 1909 in Upper Largo, Fife. He was a Scottish forester, botanist, and naturalist. Eggeling was a dominant figure in the Uganda Forest Department in the 1930s and 1940s, and played an important role in nature conservation in Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s. When seven years old and enrolled at Kirkton of Largo Parish School, he spent 18 bed ridden months with tuberculosis of the hip. Despite this initial set back he rose to a distinguished career. Following St Mary's Preparatory School in Melrose, where he was Vice Captain, Dux and Victor Ludorum, his schooling was completed at Giggleswick in Yorkshire, England. At Edinburgh University he obtained a BSc in Forestry, being awarded the Younger Medal in Practical Forestry, and three class medals for Indian and Colonial forestry, and forest mycology. In 1930 he attended the Colonial Service Postgraduate Course in Forestry at Oxford University. Despite his educational focus upon India, he instead joined the Uganda Forest Department in 1931, becoming Assistant Conservator. By 1939 Eggeling had collected some 3800 specimens for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and the British Museum Natural History. In 1954 Eggeling retired from the Colonial Forest Service and returned to the United Kingdom. Eggeling helped to found the Scottish Wildlife Trust in 1964 and became Vice President. He was also a Member of Council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and Chairman of its Scottish Advisory Committee, and President of the Scottish Ornithologist Club between 1966 and 1969. In 1939 he had married Jessie Elizabeth Tothill, died 1988, daughter of Dr John Douglas Tothill, born 1888, died 1969, Director of Agriculture in the Sudan, who had filled a similar post in Uganda. Jessie accompanied her husband on most of his trips in Africa, and thereafter in the UK, raising a family of two sons and three daughters. After 19 years in Anstruther, where his wife's parents had retired, he and his wife moved to Dunkeld in 1973. He died on 10 February 1994 in Perth, Perthshire. 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. Meteorological Autumn or Fall is different from standard and astronomical Autumn and begins September 1 and ends November 30. The equinox at which the sun approaches the Southern Hemisphere, marking the start of astronomical Autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The time of this occurrence is approximately September 22. @tourscotland #scotland #autumn #drivingtrip
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