Tour Scotland photographs and videos from my tours of Scotland. Photography and videography, both old and new, from beautiful Scotland, Scottish castles, seascapes, rivers, islands, landscapes, standing stones, lochs and glens.
Tour Scotland photograph of the Norman Evelyn Leslie Memorial in the graveyard cemetery in Leslie, Fife, Scotland. Colonel Norman Evelyn Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes, was born on the 13th of July 1877, and died on the 29th of March 1927. He was commissioned into a Militia battalion of the Devonshire Regiment in England in 1895. He was promoted Lieutenant in 1897 and resigned his commission in 1899. In 1905 he was appointed Captain in the Fife Royal Garrison Artillery, another Militia regiment. He resigned his commission in 1909. In 1911 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel commanding the Highland Cyclist Battalion, which was badged to the Black Watch from Perthshire. During the First World War he fought gallantly, and Leslie House, the ancestral head seat of his family, became a hospital for the injured. His wife worked ceaselessly during the wartime, both at Leslie House and elsewhere, acting as nurse. Rothes was promoted Colonel in 1918. He sustained injuries during the war from which he never fully recovered. He sold the House in 1919. In 1927 he died, leaving behind the earldom to his eldest son.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the David Grant gravestone in the old graveyard cemetery in Leslie, Fife, Scotland. In memory of David Grant, son of the Reverend Andrew Grant, born 1784, died 1800. Grant can be both a surname and a given name. The name is of English and Scottish origin. The surname may also be an alternate spelling of the German Grandt or Grand.
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Tour Scotland photograph of an interesting old graveston in the old graveyard cemetery in Leslie, Fife, Scotland. Leslie is a surname and given name, derived the name of Clan Leslie, ultimately from the placename of Castle Leslie, the clan's historical seat. The name of the castle is probably an anglicization of an originally Gaelic name, perhaps leas celyn meaning "holly garden. "
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Tour Scotland photograph of two burial aisles in the old graveyard cemetery in Leslie, Fife, Scotland. There are no identifiable remains of the medieval church in Leslie, but its location is indicated by the survival of two post medieval aisles that were evidently added against its northern flank. These aisles were built for the Earls of Rothes and the Douglas of Strathendry family.
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