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Glas-allt-Shiel [note 1] is a lodge on the Balmoral Estate by the shore of Loch Muick in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.In its present form it was built in 1868 by Queen Victoria, who called it Glassalt, to be what she called her "widow's house" where she could escape from the world following the death of her husband Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom.
Arbuthnott was a director of Aberdeen & Northern Estates (1973–91; chairman, 1986–91), and served as a director of the investment firm Scottish Widows (1978–1994), and was elected as chairman of the society (1984–87). [4]
Scottish Widows is a life insurance and pensions company located in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group. Its product range includes life assurance and pensions . The company has been providing financial services to the UK market since 1815.
Estates and successions greater than £10,000 in value [45] In the case of estates, any person filing probate or letters of administration, or exhibiting an inventory in Scotland; In the case of successions, the successor; £1 per £100 (i.e., 1%) or part thereof, payable on the entire value, in addition to any other duty [45
Linlithgow Palace, the first building to bear that title in Scotland, extensively rebuilt along Renaissance principles from the fifteenth century.. The origins of private estate houses in Scotland are in the extensive building and rebuilding of royal palaces that probably began under James III (r. 1460–88), accelerated under James IV (r. 1488–1513), and reached its peak under James V (r ...
A dower house is usually a moderately large house available for use by the widow of the previous owner of an English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish estate. The widow, often known as the " dowager ", usually moves into the dower house from the larger family house on the death of her husband if the heir is married, and upon his marriage if he was ...
Laird is a courtesy title for the owners of some long-established Scottish estates; the title is attached to the estate, not to the family of the owner. Traditionally, a laird is formally styled in the manner evident on the 1730 tombstone in a Scottish kirkyard (churchyard). It reads: "The Much Honoured John Grant Laird of Glenmoriston".
Parliament House, where the Convention of Estates met in March 1689. The 1689 Convention of Estates sat between 16 March 1689 and 5 June 1689 to determine the settlement of the Scottish throne, following the deposition of James VII (II of England) following the Dutch invasion by "force of arms" by Prince William of Orange and his wife Mary (daughter of James II) in the "so called" English 1688 ...