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The castle remains that are still there are from the 14th-century rebuilding, when the castle was redesigned based on the Roslyn Castle model. James V of Scotland visited Findlater in November 1535 after a pilgrimage to Tain. [1] The Laird of Findlater, an Ogilvy, was Master of Household to Mary of Guise. He lost his inheritance following ...
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."
Restored in the 19th century. Also known as Philorth Castle. One of the Nine Castles of Knuckle. Cluny Castle: Z-plan castle: c. 1604: In use as a residence: Private: South of Monymusk: Cluny Crichton Castle: Tower house: 1666: Ruined: North of Banchory: Cobairdy Castle: Tower house: 16th century: No remains: North east of Huntly: Corgarff ...
Arms of Ogilvy of Findlater. 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.
Auchindoun Castle was held by the Ogilvies from 1482 until 1535 when it passed to the Clan Gordon. [13] Findlater Castle, east of Cullen, Moray, was the seat of the Ogilvies of Findlater and Deskford, whose descendants became Earls of Seafield. [13]
His father, John Grant of Freuchie, had employed John Anderson to paint the gallery of Castle Grant with "fine colours" and gild the "storm" or dormer windows in 1635. [3] James Grant employed two masons in 1649, Robert Torrie and James Mason, to rebuild and heighten two smoking chimneys at Castle Grant and improve the leaking battlements of ...
In 1715, he was incarcerated in Edinburgh Castle as a suspected Jacobite during the Rebellion.Upon his father's death on 15 August 1730, he succeeded as the 2nd Viscount of Seafield, 2nd Viscount of Reidhaven, 2nd Earl of Seafield, 5th Earl of Findlater, 2nd Lord Ogilvy of Cullen, and 2nd Lord Ogilvy of Deskford.
He was the eldest son of James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater and 2nd Earl of Seafield, and Lady Elizabeth Hay, second daughter of Thomas Hay, 7th Earl of Kinnoull. He was born about 1714. He was born about 1714.