Spring Road Trip Drive With Music On History Visit To Peat Inn Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish music, from Anstruther in the East Neuk on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Peat Inn, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. This Scottish hamlet in Fife is located around seven miles south east of Cupar on the B940 and six miles south west of St Andrews. The hamlet is now centred on a hotel and restaurant of the same name. A warm welcome awaits you at The Peat Inn. This beautiful 5 star Scottish restaurant with rooms near St Andrews. The name Peat is of Anglo-Saxon origin and came from person who was referred to as Peat. The surname Peat was originally derived from the Old English name Peter. " Alternatively, the name could have been a nickname for a delicate person, a pampered pet. Another source presumes the name could have been short for Peatman, a cutter of Peat. And finally, one source believes the name could have been Norman in origin as the Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae lists Rickard and Tustin Peet in Normandy 1198. The variations of the surname Peat include Peat, Peate, Peart, Pert, Pett and others. 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 in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip. The date for astronomical Spring is 20th March, ending on 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, Spring starts on 1st March All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Spring Road Trip Drive With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Springfield Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Springfield, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Agnes Fraser Elder Fraser Smith was born on 8 November 1876, in Springfield. She was a Scottish actress and soprano who appeared in the later Savoy Operas and in Edwardian musical comedy. She married the Gilbert and Sullivan performer Walter Passmore, with whom she frequently appeared on stage. Fraser made her professional début with a D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring company in the chorus of The Vicar of Bray, The Lucky Star and Haddon Hall from December 1898 to September 1899. She then moved to the main D'Oyly Carte company at the Savoy Theatre in London, where she appeared in The Rose of Persia, 1899 to 1900), taking over the small role of Blush-of-Morning from Isabel Jay, and occasionally playing the lead role of the Sultana during Jay's temporary absence; the 1900 revival of The Pirates of Penzance as Isabel, understudying Jay as Mabel and going on in that role in September 1900; the revival of Patience as Lady Ella, 1900 to 1901; The Emerald Isle as Kathleen, occasionally going on for Jay as Lady Rose Pippin in 1901; the first revival of Iolanthe as Celia in 1901; and The Willow Pattern as Ah Mee, 1901 to 1902. When Isabel Jay left the company, Fraser replaced her as the lead soprano, originating the role of Bessie Throckmorton in Merrie England at the Savoy Theatre in 1902 and then on tour. Her last role at the Savoy was Kenna in A Princess of Kensington, from January 1903, and on tour until September. By 1939 she was living a rather more modest retirement life with her husband and stockbroker son John Passmore at Heath Mews at The Mount in Hampstead, London, Wngland. Fraser died in London in 1968.. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Spring Road Trip Drive With Bapipes Music On History Visit To Collessie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K Spring travel video of a road drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on a single track route on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Collessie, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Collessie is located South of Newburgh in Fife. Collessie was on the pilgrim route to St Andrews. Sir William Oliphant Hutchison is buried in Collessie graveyard. Born in Kirkcaldy, Hutchison was a scholar at Kirkcaldy High School, and subsequently at Rugby School. He attended the Edinburgh College of Art between 1909 and 1912. On leaving he started the Edinburgh Group, holding exhibitions for three consecutive years, with Eric Robertson, Alick Riddell Sturrock, John Guthrie Spence Smith,[1] Dorothy Johnstone, Mary Newbery,and David Macbeth Sutherland who later became Principal at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen. Hutchison also worked and studied in Paris for a while, mainly painting portraits though also producing landscape and figure paintings. Hutchison enlisted during the First World War serving with the Royal Garrison Artillery and being stationed in Malta, later being badly wounded in France. After demobilization in 1918, he and his wife occupied a studio flat in Edinburgh until 1921, before moving to London. Here he successfully worked as a portrait painter, exhibiting at the Royal Academy, becoming a member of the Savage Club, and enjoying a large circle of friends, mainly from the art world. Hutchison was Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1933 to 1943, from all accounts being an excellent director. Though a great traditionalist he encouraged those who tended to the avant garde. The school maintained an interest in those staff and students serving during World War II, sending them gifts and cards. He served as President of the Royal Scottish Academy from 1950 to 1959 and was knighted in 1953. He died on 5 February 1970 at his home at 30 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London, England. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Spring Road Trip Drive With Bagpipes Music On History Visit To Pitscottie Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of a road trip drive, with Scottish bagpipes music, on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to Pitscottie, Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Pitscottie is a small village in the Parish of Ceres, situated on the Ceres Burn at a road junction to the south of Dura Den and 3 miles south east of Cupar. The nearby Pitscottie Moor was a favourite meeting place of Covenanters during the late 17th century and during the 1820s the village became a centre of flax spinning. There is an 18th century bridge over the Ceres Burn. ( Burn is the Scots word for stream or small river ) Robert Lindsay was born in 1532 at Pitscottie, in the parish of Ceres, Fife, which he held in lease at a later period. He was a Scottish chronicler, author of The Historie and Chronicles of Scotland, 1436 to 565, the first history of Scotland to be composed in Scots rather than Latin. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the trip All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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Road Trip Drive With Music On History Visit To Goodsir House Anstruther East Neuk Of Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of a Spring road trip drive West on the A917 route to the house of the birthplace of John Goodsir, a Scottish anatomist and a pioneer in the formulation of cell theory, on ancestry, genealogy, family, history visit to Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Britain, United Kingdom. Goodsir was born on 20 March 1814 in Anstruther, Fife, the son of Elizabeth Dunbar Taylor and John Goodsir, born 1742, died 1848, a medical practitioner in the town. He was baptised on 17 April 1814. His younger brother, Joseph Taylor Goodsir, entered the ministry and became minister in Lower Largo. His younger brother, Harry Goodsir, perished on the Franklin expedition. Another brother, Robert, born. 1824, qualified as a doctor and sailed twice to the Arctic searching for his brother Harry. His youngest brother, Archibald, born 1826 qualified as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In December 1826, at the age of 12, Goodsir entered the University of St Andrews, where his classes included classics and mathematics. The following year he was apprenticed to the surgeon and dentist Robert Nasmyth, at 78 Great King Street in Edinburgh's New Town. This allowed him to enter the Edinburgh University Medical School and also attend classes at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He finished his apprenticeship with Nasmyth in 1833, and qualified as Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1835. He then moved back to Anstruther to work in his father's medical practice, which allowed him to resume his boyhood hobby of searching the local coastline along the Firth of Forth for all forms of wildlife. The specimens which he collected formed the basis of the collection he later developed as a museum conservator. In Edinburgh Goodsir had befriended Edward Forbes, who would later become Regius Professor of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and George Day, later Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine of the University of St Andrews. Together with Goodsir's brother Joseph they rented a flat at 21 Lothian Street close to the university, which became a meeting place for scientists, writers and artists, who together called themselves the Brotherhood of the Friends of Truth. During his surgical and dental apprenticeship with Nasmyth Goodsir had started to collect human teeth. From studies of these he made the important observation that deciduous teeth were not the 'parents' of permanent teeth but developed independently. In 1839, he published a noted paper on this topic. The following year he gave a paper to the British Association for the Advancement of Science entitled "Dentition in the ruminants", with some assistance from the University of Edinburgh Professor of Natural History, Robert Jameson. Jameson lent him an Ehrenberg microscope and encouraged him to develop. The date for astronomical spring is Sunday 20th March, ending on Tuesday 21st June, while by the meteorological calendar, spring will start on Tuesday 1st March. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. When driving on Scottish roads in Scotland slow down and enjoy the tripmicroscopical studies from which Goodsir would later make major contributions to understanding of cell and tissue structure and function. Goodsir joined the Wernerian Natural History Society which had been founded by Jameson All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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