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Dating to 1580, it is now Category A listed, [1] with its collection of gravestones considered one of the best in Scotland. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The cemetery closed to burials in 1978. The cemetery occupies the former location of the Greyfriars Monastery , founded by Laurence Oliphant, 1st Lord Oliphant , in 1496 and destroyed in 1559 at the start of ...
On 14 December 2005, Duncan was found dead at his home in Perthshire following a long struggle with alcoholism. [1] His funeral was held at Pitlochry Church of Scotland and was attended by hundreds of pipers. [5] [9] In his memory, the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust [12] was set up early in 2006 to support good causes in piping. [13]
For three years before Tulloch's death he was convener of the church interests committee of the Church of Scotland, which had to deal with agitation for disestablishment. [4] In 1884, he was a guest at Haddo House for a dinner hosted by John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in honour of William Ewart Gladstone on his tour of ...
Pinnington himself presumably returned separately. According to his obituary, the family settled in Auchtermuchty at the family home, around 1914. Pinnington seems to have published nothing thereafter, though extracts from his unpublished biography of Sam Bough were published in The Carlisle Journal in 1922, after his death (for details see below).
Jackson died in 1891, aged 59. His death was not unexpected, his having been ill for several years. His causes of death were given as "senile decay, chronic hepatitis, acute dyspepsia and inanition". [1] In his newspaper obituary, the Perthshire Constitutional noted that he was "known across Scotland as a first-rate landscape photographer". [1]
Perthshire is known as the "big county", or "the Shire", due to its roundness and status as the fourth largest historic county in Scotland. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands .
Ballechin House was a Georgian estate home near Grandtully, Perthshire, Scotland. It was built in 1806, [1] on the site of an old manor house which had been owned by the Steuart family since the 15th century. [2] This house, which stands in Ballechin Wood, is the subject for a popular local ghostlore story.
He was born in Alyth, Perthshire. [2] With Silly Wizard he not only sang, but also played the tenor banjo, mandolin and tin whistles. Andy Stewart came from the Stewart family of Scottish Travellers which included Belle Stewart and Sheila Stewart. He learnt the song "If I were a Blackbird" from the former, his great aunt. [3]