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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, 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 .
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:
Cortachy Castle, about three miles north of Kirriemuir, Angus, is a courtyard castle that dates from the fifteenth century. [12] It came to the Ogilvies in 1473. [12] Charles II of England spent a night at the castle in 1650 in what is now known as the 'King's Room'. [12] The following year it was sacked by Oliver Cromwell. [12]
Findlater may refer to: Findlater (surname) Findlater, Saskatchewan, a village in Canada; Findlater Castle, a castle in Scotland; Earl of Findlater, ...
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 ...
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 ...