Old Photograph Lamington House Scotland

Old photograph of Lamington House in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. Charles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, born 29 July 1860, died 16 September 1940, was a British politician and colonial administrator who was Governor of Queensland, Australia, from 1896 to 1901, and Governor of Bombay, India, from 1903 to 1907. He was born in London, England, and was the only son of Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, the 1st Baron Lamington. Charles was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1883. In 1885, he became assistant private secretary to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Lord Salisbury. Upon the death of his father in 1890, he succeeded as the 2nd Baron Lamington. On 13 June 1895, he married Mary Houghton Hozier at St Michael's Church, Pimlico; they had two children, a son and a daughter. He was appointed captain of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry on 26 March 1902. In 1919, he served as commissioner of the British Relief Unit in Syria, prior to its allocation as a French mandate. He returned to his family home, Lamington House, in Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he died on 16 September 1940, aged 80.



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Old Photograph Torduff Reservoir Scotland

Old photograph of Torduff Reservoir in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Scotland.



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Old Photograph Fairnilee House Scotland

Old photograph of Fairnilee House located three miles South West of Galashiels, Scottish Borders of Scotland. Alison Cockburn was born on 8 October 1712 at Fairnilee House. In 1765 she published her lyrics to the traditional Border Ballad the Flowers of the Forest. She was the daughter of Robert Rutherfurd of Fairnalee. She married an impoverished advocate, Patrick Cockburn of Ormiston in 1731. Unable to afford a home of their own they lived for 4 years in the house of her elderly father in law, " an old Presbyterian of the deepest dye " who condemned as ungodly cards, plays, and dancing. On the death of the old man they moved to Edinburgh and she began to mix in society where her liveliness and wit made her welcome in spite of her relatively lowly status. Her husband died on 29 April 1753, and left her a small income. She continued to mix in artistic and intellectual circles from her home in Bristo Street, on Castlehill, Edinburgh. In 1765 she published her lyrics to the traditional Border Ballad the Flowers of the Forest. She died on 22 November 1794. She is buried in the kirkyard of The Chapel of Ease of Buccleuch Parish Church in Edinburgh.



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Old Photograph Mossfennan House Scotland

Old photograph of Mossfennan House by Broughton in the Scottish Borders, Scotland. The core is a simple 18th century house which has been extended at either end in the Victorian era and is now a pleasant long low structure, with harled walls, quoins, piended ridge roof, the large dining room and upstairs drawing room to extreme left having a splayed bay window; pilastered doorway in centre.



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Old Photograph Lennel House Scotland

Old photograph of Lennel House by Coldstream, Scottish Borders, Scotland. During World War I Lennel was an Auxiliary Hospital, a private convalescent home for officers, on the country estate owned by Major Walter and Lady Clementine Waring. It had been transformed, as had many private homes throughout Britain, into a treatment center. Lady Susan Elizabeth Clementine Hay was born on 9 August 1879. She was the daughter of William Montagu Hay, 10th Marquess of Tweeddale and Candida Louise Bartolucci. She married Captain Walter Waring, son of Charles Waring, on 4 November 1901. She was invested as a Commander, Order of the British Empire in 1918. She was decorated with the award of the Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Medal.



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