Tour Scotland Video Morris Statue Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of the Morris statue in the East courtyard outside of Abbotsford House on the banks of the River Tweed near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. Morris is a character from the novel Rob Roy written in 1817 by Sir Walter Scott. John Greenshields was the Scottish sculptor who created the statue of Morris, an excisemen from Rob Roy. Walter Scott Scott was an important patron and admirer of Greenshields who was born in Lesmahagow. Greenshield also sculpted the statue of Prince Charles Edward Stewart on the Jacobite Monument, Glenfinnan in 1835, and The Jolly Beggars in 1835.

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Tour Scotland Video Game Larder Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of the Game Larder, Icehouse and terraces at Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. The Castle style game larder and icehouse was built into upper terrace and connected to house by tunnel for Sir Walter Scott by John Smith of Darnick. John Smith of Darnick also created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church.

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Tour Scotland Video Family Chapel Abbotsford House Near Melrose Roxburghshire Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of the family chapel in Abbotsford House near Melrose on ancestry visit to Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders, Scotland. This was added to Abbotsford in 1855 by Charlotte the granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, who had converted to Catholicism with her husband, James Hope Scott, in 1851.

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Old Photograph Arbigland House Scotland

Old photograph of Arbigland House near Kirkbean by the Solway Firth in, Kirkcudbrightshire, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Arbigland House was built in 1755 by the improving laird and gentleman architect William Craik, born 1703, died 1798. His daughter, the poet and novelist Helen Craik, born 1751, died 1825, lived there until 1792. James Craik, the Physician General of the United States Army and personal physician of George Washington, was also born there in 1730. An officer in the Continental Navy, John Paul Jones, whose father was a gardener at Arbigland, was born in a cottage in the grounds on 6 July 1747. John Paul Jones was the United States' first well known naval commander in the American Revolutionary War. He made many friends, and enemies, who accused him of piracy among America's political elites, and his actions in British waters during the Revolution earned him an international reputation which persists to this day. As such, he is sometimes referred to as the " Father of the American Navy " an epithet that he shares with John Barry and John Adams. He later served in the Imperial Russian Navy, subsequently obtaining the rank of rear admiral. In June 1792, Jones was appointed U.S. Consul to treat with the Dey of Algiers for the release of American captives. Before Jones was able to fulfill his appointment, however, he was found dead, aged 45, lying face down on his bed in his third floor Paris apartment, No. 19 Rue de Tournon, on July 18, 1792. Jones's body was eventually ceremonially removed from interment in a Parisian charnel house and brought to the United States aboard the USS Brooklyn, escorted by three other cruisers. On approaching the American coastline, seven U.S. Navy battleships joined the procession escorting Jones's body back to America. On April 24, 1906, Jones's coffin was installed in Bancroft Hall at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, following a ceremony in Dahlgren Hall, presided over by President Theodore Roosevelt who gave a lengthy tributary speech. On January 26, 1913, the Captain's remains were finally re-interred in a magnificent bronze and marble sarcophagus at the Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis.



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Tour Scotland Video Leaderfoot Viaduct River Tweed Scottish Borders

Tour Scotland video of Leaderfoot Viaduct over the River Tweed on ancestry visit to the Scottish Borders, Scotland. This Scottish viaduct which is no longer used by trains, was opened on November 16th, 1863 to carry the Berwickshire Railway line, which connected Reston, on the East Coast Main Line between Berwick-upon-Tweed and Edinburgh, with St Boswells, on the Edinburgh to Carlisle " Waverley Line ", via Duns and Greenlaw. The engineers of the railway were Charles Jopp and Wylie & Peddie. The viaduct stands 126 feet from the floor of the river valley. The arches, each of 43 feet span, are of brickwork, and the abutments, piers and walls are of rustic faced red sandstone. Some later strengthening of the abutments and piers with old rails and buttresses on the southern valley side is very obvious. It is straight over its whole course, and runs in a broadly northerly direction.

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