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Airlie Castle is a mansion house in the parish of Airlie, Angus, near the junction of the Isla and Melgund rivers, 9 kilometres west of Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland.A castle was built on the site in c. 1432 and was burnt out in 1640, with a mansion house built incorporating and on top of some of the ruins in c. 1792–93, and occupied today. [1]
Standing Stone by Baitland of Airlie. Airlie (Scottish Gaelic: Iarlaidh) is a civil parish in the Scottish council area of Angus. [1] [2] It is the seat of the Earl of Airlie, and the location of Airlie Castle. It comprises Craigton of Airlie, Baitland of Airlie and Kirkton of Airlie. There is a standing stone in a field just east of the ...
When Lady Airlie's eldest son married in 1917, she moved from Cortachy Castle to Airlie Castle and embarked on a career as an author. She published family letters, titled In Whig Society, 1775–1818 (1921) and Lady Palmerston and her Times (1922).
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 Bonnie House of Airlie is a traditional Scottish folk song of the seventeenth century, telling the tale of the raid by Archibald Campbell, Earl of Argyll, on Airlie Castle, the home of James Ogilvy, Earl of Airlie, in the summer of 1640. [1]
The title "Lord Ogilvy of Airlie" was created on 28 April 1491. In 1715, James Ogilvy, son of the 3rd Earl, took part in a Jacobite uprising against the Crown and was therefore punished by being attainted ; consequently, after his father's death two years later, he was unable to inherit the title.
Ian Airlie, 48, was found dead at his home in Greenwich on Thursday, 10 October. He fell down the escalator at the tube station’s Jubilee Line at 17.05pm on Sunday, 15 September.
David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC, JP (17 May 1926 – 26 June 2023) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, banker and peer.. Airlie served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household from 1984 until 1997, as well as in a number of honorary positions such as Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle and Lord Lieutenant of Angus.