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Findlater Castle is the old seat of the Earls of Findlater and Seafield, sitting on a 50-foot (15 m)-high cliff overlooking the Moray Firth on the coast of Banff and Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Location and etymology
James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield (10 April 1750 – 5 October 1811) was a Scottish peer and an accomplished amateur landscape architect and philanthropist. He promoted the British landscape garden in mainland Europe, where he spent lavishly on public works and "improvements of the scenery."
Findlater Castle: Courtyard castle: 14th century: Ruined: Private: Sandend: Foveran Castle: Unknown 12th or 13th century Collapsed 1720 Clan Forbes: Southeast of Ellon:
Viscount Castle Cuffe [citation needed] 1793: Cuffe: extinct 1934: subsidiary title of the Earl of Desart: Viscount Castle Stewart [211] 20 December 1793: Stewart-Moore: extant: created Earl Castle Stewart in 1800 Viscount Landaff [211] 4 December 1793: Mathew: extinct or dormant 1833: created Earl Landaff in 1797 Viscount Leitrim [211] 20 ...
James Ogilvy, 1st Earl of Findlater (c.1592–1652), known as Lord Ogilvy of Deskford until 1638, was a Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] His title was named after Findlater Castle , the ancient seat of the Ogilvies of Deskford and Findlater, a branch of Clan Ogilvy .
The original castle was built in 1432 by the Ogilvies. [13] Cortachy Castle, about three miles north of Kirriemuir, Angus, is a courtyard castle that dates from the fifteenth century. [13] It came to the Ogilvies in 1473. [13] Charles II of England spent a night at the castle in 1650 in what is now known as the 'King's Room'. [13]
The lands passed from the Duffs to the Ogilvies of Findlater, and subsequently, in 1568, the Ord family acquired the manor, port, custom, and fishers' lands of Findochty, and later built the House of Findochty, known as Findochty Castle, now a ruin, which stands to the west of the village. In 1716 the Ords brought 13 men and 4 boys from ...
It was under James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater, that plans were first mooted for moving the town, [13] but it was not until his successor Ludovick Ogilvy-Grant, 5th Earl of Seafield, that the plans were enacted. The town was moved 0.5 miles (800 metres) away both to modernise (the houses of the old town flooded from water running down off the ...