May 30th Photograph Cloan House Garden Auchterarder Scotland

May 30th photograph of Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Gardens and policies extending to roughly 7 acres, originally laid out in the 1850s. Mature trees, rhododendrons and azaleas. Walled, water and wild gardens and delightful woodland walks. This is a garden I will be returning to on a day with better weather.


May 30th photograph of Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.


May 30th photograph of Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.


May 30th photograph of Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.


May 30th photograph of Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.

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May 30th Photograph Pet Cemetery Scotland

May 30th photograph of a pet cemetery in Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.


May 30th photograph of a pet cemetery in Cloan House Gardens, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Cloan House Auchterarder Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of Cloan House, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Victorian Gothic turrets of Cloan, home of Viscount Haldane philosopher and statesman, visited by every great man of the period from Albert Einstein, Lloyd George to Baden Pawell. Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane of Cloan, Viscount, born 1856, died 1928, British statesman. He entered the House of Commons as a Liberal. As war secretary from, 1905 to 1912, he effected drastic army reforms, creating a British expeditionary force, an imperial general staff, an officers training corps, and the territorial army. He was created a peer in 1911. On a diplomatic mission to Germany in 1912) he rejected a proposal of British neutrality in any war into which Germany might be drawn. In Ramsay MacDonald's first short Labour ministry in 1924 he was again lord chancellor. He was first chancellor of the University of Bristol and was elected lord rector of Edinburgh. Haldane was honoured with the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh in 1912. He died at Cloan House and is buried at Gleneagles. The current chief of Clan Haldane is Martin Haldane of Gleneagles.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Old Churchyard Auchterarder Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the old churchyard in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The churchyard contains the old church tower, several interesting Victorian and earlier gravestones and also the 1919 white marble war memorial.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Town Hall Auchterarder

Tour Scotland photograph of the Town Hall Clock in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The Town Hall was built through public subscription as a memorial to Captain Aytoun of Glendevon who introduced a pure water supply to the town in the 1830s. Captain Chadwick Marriot Walker Aytoun, usually known as Marriot, was born in Inchdairnie, Fife, on the 18th March 1787. He was the son of Major General Roger Aytoun, 9th Laird of Inchdairnie, and Jean Sinclair. His elder brother was John Aytoun, the 10th Laird. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1802. By 1812 he had been promoted to the rank of Captain. He married Eliza Wardlaw Miller in Edinburgh in April 1823. He was a Lieutenant for Fife and a Justice of the Peace for Fife & Perthshire. He and his wife owned several properties around Freuchie, near Falkland, including three mills and the lands and woodlands of Purin. Marriot’s in-laws, the Rutherford family, owned Glendevon Estate, which included Glendevon House and the castle, hence Captain Aytoun of Glendevon.



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June Photograph Murray Gravestone Scotland

June photograph of a Murray gravestone, old churchyard, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Tour Photograph Smeaton Gravestones Auchterarder

Tour Scotland photograph of Smeaton gravestones in the old churchyard in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. Including, Private John Burgh Smeaton who served in the 27th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry. He died on 10 April 1917 in France at the age of 25 and is buried in Bois-Carre British Cemetery near Thelus in France. He was the son of Thomas Wright Smeaton and Leila Burgh Smeaton of Coul House, Auchterarder.



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Tour Scotland Photograph George Jacque Gravestone Auchterarder Perthshire

Tour Scotland photograph of the George Jacque gravestones in the old churchyard cemetery in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.

This is a surname of Olde French origins. Introduced into the British Isles at various times after the Invasion of 1066, it has its origins in the pre 7th century personal name Jacques, the equivalent of the English and Scottish forms of Jack, Jake, and the patronymics Jakes, Jacks and Jackes.



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Tour Scotland Photograph War Memorial Auchterarder

Tour Scotland photograph of the War Memorial, Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland.

In memory of the following:

Allan, Robert. Private. Black Watch
Darling, Andrew S. Sergeant. Pilot. Royal Air Force.
Dewar, Robert. Private. Black Watch
Donaldson, Charles H. Private. Royal Marine Commandos
Forbes, John D. Sergeant. R.A.F.
Fraser, Ernest J. Lance Corporal. Cameronians S.R.
Gunn, Alastair D.M. Flight Lieutenant. R.A.F.
Haxton, Robert L. Flight Sergeant. R.A.F.
Isaac, James. Flying Officer. R.A.F.
MacDonald, Hamish T. Pilot Officer. R.A.F.
McRostie, David. Gunner. Royal Artillery
Moir, John. Sgt. Air Gunner. R.A.F.
Munn, Andrew McK. Sergeant. Seaforths & R.A.F.
Reid, James H. Flight Lieutenant. R.A.F.
Sinclair, John E.C. Major. Royal Artillery
Smith, James I. Squadron Leader. R.A.F.
Turnbull, Robert. Private. Black Watch
Urquhart, Gordon A. Private. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
Whitelaw, John W. A.C.1. R.A.F.
Whittet, James. Corporal. R.A.F.

Auchterarder is 46 miles from Glasgow and Paisley



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Old Church Tower Auchterarder

Tour Scotland photograph of the old Church Tower in Auchterarder, Perthshire, Scotland. The original Church, of which the existing Tower was part, was constructed in 1660. In January 1716 the Church served as a refugee centre after Auchterarder and a number of neighbouring villages were torched by the Jacobites in order to impede the advance of the Government troops after the Battle of Sheriffmuir.



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