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Pittentrail Inn Rogart
Pittentrail Inn Rogart Pittentrail Inn OIRO £550,000 Rogart Ref: 46267 IV28 3XA Freehold A WELL PRESENTED INN WITH SELF CATERING APARTMENT AND SUBSTANTIAL DETACHED OWNERS HOUSE IN POPULAR LOCALE. The Pittentrail Inn is an extremely well run family business that has been run by the current proprietors since 1998. The property has been placed on the market due to the current proprietor’s wish to retire from the licence trade. The business trades throughout the year and its quality is reflected in the number of awards it currently holds such as achieving 4.5 out 5 on trip advisor, 4.4 on Google and 5 stars on Facebook and being ranked number 2 in the area. Additional marketing is carried out through Facebook. “The Pittentrail Inn felt like a true Scottish Pub. Good meals and friendly atmosphere. We tried Haggis and really enjoyed it. There were 8 in our group and the staff couldn’t have done more to help us.” • 3 bedroom detached house • Public Bar • Freehold • Lounge Bar • Excellent Location • Conservatory • Self catering apartment • Potential for letting rooms • Dining Room/ Private Function Room www.BusinessBuyers.co.uk Situation In addition to the above, you will find an well presented The Pittentrail Inn is situated between Golspie and Lairg on and spacious restaurant. The restaurant is located off of the A839 within the community of Rogart with a population the lounge bar and can accommodate 30+ persons. The of circa 400. The village of Pittentrail has a train station, restaurant benefits from carpet flooring and is well furnished convenience store and a garage. -
Summary for Countess Ebba Sparre
KRESS COLLECTION DIGITAL ARCHIVE Sébastien Bourdon, 1616-1671 Countess Ebba Sparre KRESS CATALOGUE NUMBER IDENTIFIER K1439 605 ARTIST NATIONALITY Bourdon, Sébastien, 1616-1671 French DATE MEDIUM 1652/1653 oil on canvas TYPE OF OBJECT Painting DIMENSIONS 106.1 x 90.2 cm (41 3/4 x 35 1/2 in) LOCATION National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia PROVENANCE Probably commissioned by Christina, Queen of Sweden [1626-1689], Stockholm, Antwerp, and inventoried 1656 amongst her goods to be sent to Rome; [1] by inheritance to Cardinal Decio Azzolini [1623-1689], Rome; by inheritance to his nephew, Marchese Pompeo Azzolini [d. 1696], Rome; sold 1696 to Principe Livio Odescalchi, Duke Bracciano [1652-1713], Rome; by inheritance to his nephew, Baldassare Odescalchi-Erba [d. 1746]; sold 1721 through Pierre Crozat [1665-1740] to Philippe II, duc d'Orléans [1674- 1723], Paris; by inheritance to his son, Louis, duc d'Orléans [1703-1752], Paris; by inheritance to his son, Louis Philippe, duc d'Orléans [1725-1785], Paris; by inheritance to his son, Louis Philippe Joseph, duc d'Orléans [1747-1793], Paris; sold 1791 with the French and Italian paintings of the Orléans collection, which figure as a group in the next three sales, to Edouard, vicomte Walkuers [or Walquers], Brussels; sold 1792 to his cousin, François Louis Joseph, comte Laborde de Méréville [d. 1801], Paris and London; NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC, GALLERY ARCHIVES Page 1 KRESS COLLECTION DIGITAL ARCHIVE on consignment until 1798 with (Jeremiah Harman, London); sold 1798 through (Michael Bryan, London) to a consortium of Francis Egerton, 3rd duke of Bridgewater [1736-1803], London and Worsley Hall, Lancashire, Frederick Howard, 5th earl of Carlisle [1748- 1825], Castle Howard, North Yorkshire, and George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st duke of Sutherland [1758-1833], London, Trentham Hall, Stafford, and Dunrobin Castle, Highland, Scotland. -
Biographical Appendix
Biographical Appendix The following women are mentioned in the text and notes. Abney- Hastings, Flora. 1854–1887. Daughter of 1st Baron Donington and Edith Rawdon- Hastings, Countess of Loudon. Married Henry FitzAlan Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk, 1877. Acheson, Theodosia. 1882–1977. Daughter of 4th Earl of Gosford and Louisa Montagu (daughter of 7th Duke of Manchester and Luise von Alten). Married Hon. Alexander Cadogan, son of 5th Earl of Cadogan, 1912. Her scrapbook of country house visits is in the British Library, Add. 75295. Alten, Luise von. 1832–1911. Daughter of Karl von Alten. Married William Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, 1852. Secondly, married Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, 1892. Grandmother of Alexandra, Mary, and Theodosia Acheson. Annesley, Katherine. c. 1700–1736. Daughter of 3rd Earl of Anglesey and Catherine Darnley (illegitimate daughter of James II and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester). Married William Phipps, 1718. Apsley, Isabella. Daughter of Sir Allen Apsley. Married Sir William Wentworth in the late seventeenth century. Arbuthnot, Caroline. b. c. 1802. Daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. Stepdaughter of Harriet Fane. She did not marry. Arbuthnot, Marcia. 1804–1878. Daughter of Rt. Hon. Charles Arbuthnot. Stepdaughter of Harriet Fane. Married William Cholmondeley, 3rd Marquess of Cholmondeley, 1825. Aston, Barbara. 1744–1786. Daughter and co- heir of 5th Lord Faston of Forfar. Married Hon. Henry Clifford, son of 3rd Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, 1762. Bannister, Henrietta. d. 1796. Daughter of John Bannister. She married Rev. Hon. Brownlow North, son of 1st Earl of Guilford, 1771. Bassett, Anne. Daughter of Sir John Bassett and Honor Grenville. -
Come Walk in the Footsteps of Your Ancestors
Come walk in the footsteps of your ancestors Come walk in the footsteps Your Detailed Itinerary of your ancestors Highland in flavour. Dunrobin Castle is Museum is the main heritage centre so-called ‘Battle of the Braes’ a near Golspie, a little further north. The for the area. The scenic spectacle will confrontation between tenants and Day 1 Day 3 largest house in the northern Highlands, entrance you all the way west, then police in 1882, which was eventually to Walk in the footsteps of Scotland’s The A9, the Highland Road, takes you Dunrobin and the Dukes of Sutherland south, for overnight Ullapool. lead to the passing of the Crofters Act monarchs along Edinburgh’s Royal speedily north, with a good choice of are associated with several episodes in in 1886, giving security of tenure to the Mile where historic ‘closes’ – each stopping places on the way, including the Highland Clearances, the forced crofting inhabitants of the north and with their own story – run off the Blair Castle, and Pitlochry, a popular emigration of the native Highland Day 8 west. Re-cross the Skye Bridge and main road like ribs from a backbone. resort in the very centre of Scotland. people for economic reasons. Overnight continue south and east, passing Eilean Between castle and royal palace is a Overnight Inverness. Golspie or Brora area. At Braemore junction, south of Ullapool, Donan Castle, once a Clan Macrae lifetime’s exploration – so make the take the coastal road for Gairloch. This stronghold. Continue through Glen most of your day! Gladstone’s Land, section is known as ‘Destitution Road’ Shiel for the Great Glen, passing St Giles Cathedral, John Knox House Day 4 Day 6 recalling the road-building programme through Fort William for overnight in are just a few of the historic sites on that was started here in order to provide Ballachulish or Glencoe area. -
Aliona Report by Tony Glazebrook
The Far North Line A performance study For Friends of the Far North Line By Tony Glazebrook Aliona Ltd October 2016 Between the parallel lines of indecision and inactivity drop the stakeholders’ aims and resources. Contents Purpose of this study ................................................................................................................. 3 Process adopted ......................................................................................................................... 3 Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................... 3 Executive summary .................................................................................................................... 4 The FNL route ............................................................................................................................. 5 The trains ................................................................................................................................... 6 The timetable, 8 August to 10 December 2016 ......................................................................... 6 Briefing pre - meetings held....................................................................................................... 6 Literature studied ...................................................................................................................... 6 Cab ride, 14:00 Inverness to Thurso train, 3 Oct 2016 ............................................................. -
Top Visitor Attractions in Caithness and Sutherland
1 Historylinks Museum, Dornoch 8 North Shore Pottery, Latheron 15 Pulteney Distillery, Wick Enjoy the history of Dornoch including the Vikings, Cathedral, feuding Individual pieces of porcelain and stoneware which are both functional and The most northerly distillery on the Scottish Mainland. Discover the clans, Scotland’s last witch, golf and the railway. Many unique films and unique. Work in progress can be viewed at the workshop and is for sale in history and art of Scottish Whisky making. Purchase and hand fill your slide shows. There is much to involve children. the showroom. own bottle of cask strength whisky. Open Mon – Fri, April, May and October Open 7 days, June – September. Open Wed – Sat and by appointment. Closed in January. Open all year Mon – Fri 10am – 1pm / 2 – 4pm Saturdays Easter – end Rest of year, Wed & Thu. Tel: 01593 741777 September. Tel: 01862 811275 www.historylinks.org.uk Tel: 01955 602371 www.oldpulteney.com 9 Patricia Niemann Jewellery, Latheron 2 Orcadian Stone Shop, Golspie A goldsmith's workshop located in the North Shore Pottery. Fine jewellery and 16 Castle Sinclair Girnigoe, Noss Head Enjoy our wonderful display of minerals, crystals and fossils – the largest unusual objects are hand made on site. Commissions undertaken. The finest medieval / rennaissance castle in the north of Scotland, private collection in Scotland. Buy gemstone jewellery, mineral specimens, Open Wed – Sat and by appointment. Closed January and last two weeks in currently the subject of a preservation programme. fossils, stone giftware, geological maps and books. October. Open from 2010 May – October. Open Easter – October Tel: 01593 741777 www.patbat.com E-mail [email protected] Tel: 01955 606700 www.sinclairgirnigoe.org Tel: 01408 633483 www.orcadianstone.co.uk 10 Waterlines Visitor Centre, Lybster 17 Lyth Arts Centre 3 Dunrobin Castle, Golspie Lybster's history as Scotland's third largest herring port and the natural history A unique and attractive arts venue presenting a wide programme of Home of the Clan Sutherland, dates from early 1300’s. -
Titian, the Rape of Europa, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Titian, The Rape of Europa, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Titian, Danaë, Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London The National Gallery’s much anticipated exhibition Titian – Love, Desire, Death opened on Monday, 16 March and I was lucky enough to see it the following day. It closed on the Wednesday of that week, together with the Gallery’s permanent collection, due to the Coronavirus crisis. A remarkable display, the most ravishing small-scale exhibition I have ever seen, the official closing date is 15 June, so if the Gallery reopens before then, please try to see it. The exhibition is due to continue at three of the other four art galleries whose generous loans have made this ground breaking art historical event possible: Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery, 11 July – 27 September; Madrid’s Prado Mueum, 20 October – 10 January; and Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 11 February – 9 May next year. So, should we not be able to feast our eyes on these spectacular works in London, we must hope for the opportunity elsewhere. The catalogue for the London, Edinburgh and Boston versions of the exhibition, also titled Titian – Love, Desire, Death is, given the closure of normal booksellers, widely available via Amazon or similar web suppliers: the ISBN number is 978 1 8570 9655 2 and costs £25. The Prado will publish a separate catalogue. As you may know, we have a Study Day in connection with the exhibition scheduled for 13 May and we very much hope that this may still be possible? Meanwhile, by way of anticipation I have written this short review of the exhibition, which I hope you will find of interest? 2 Titian, Venus and Adonis, Prado Museum, Madrid The exhibition represents a series of amazing ‘firsts’. -
JOHNSTON's CLAN HISTORIES ORA L\!Rf '"'.'I' 1R It'/ R'al!FORNIA G; , --\L Uti;~ ~~ SOCI ETY NC=~
• JOHNSTON'S CLAN HISTORIES ORA l\!rF '"'.'I'_ 1r iT'/ r'AL!FORNIA G;_ , _ --\L Uti;~ ~~ SOCI ETY NC=~ SCU\d.,,. t 0 °""'! PERSONAL ARMS OF LORD REAY, CHIEF OF CLAN MACKAY JOHNSTON'S CLAN HISTORIES THE CLAN MACKAY Clansman's Badgt JOHNSTON'S CLAN HISTORIES THE CLAN CAMERON. BY C.I. FRASER OF REELIG, Sometime Albany Herald. THE CLAN CAMPBELL. BY ANDREW MCKERRAL, C.I.E. THE CLAN DONALD. (Macdonald, Macdonell, Macalister). BY I.F GRANT, LL.D. THE FERGUSSONS. BY SIR JAMES FERGUSSON OF KILKERRAN, BT. THE CLAN FRASER OF LOVAT. BY C.I. FRASER OF REELIG, Sometime Albany Herald. TIIE CLAN GORDON. BY JEAN DUN LOP, PH.D. THE GRAHAMS. BY JOHN STEWART OF ARDVORLICH. THE CLAN GRANT. BY I.F. GRANT, LL.D. THE KENNEDYS. BY SIR JAMES FERGUSSON OF KILKERRAN, BT. THE CLAN MACGREGOR. BY W.R. KERMACK. THE CLAN MACKAY. BY MARGARET 0. MACDOUGALL. THE CLAN MACKENZIE. BY JEAN DUNLOP, PH.D. THE CLAN MACKINTOSH. BY JEAN DUNLOP, PH.D. THE CLAN MACLEAN . BY JOHN MACKECHNIE. THE CLAN MACLEOD. BY 1.F. GRANT, LL.D. THE CLAN MACRAE. BY DONALD MACRAE. THE CLAN MORRISON. BY ALICK MORRISON. THE CLAN MUNRO. BY C.I. FRASER OF REELIG,Sometime Albany Herald. THE ROBERTSONS. BY SIR IAIN MONCREIFFE OF THAT ILK, BT. Albany Herald. THE CLAN ROSS. BY DONALD MACKINNON, D. LITT. THE SCOITS. BY JEAN DUNLOP, PH.D. THE STEWARTS . BY JOHN STEWART OF ARDVORLICH. THE CLAN MACKAY A CELTIC RESISTANCE TO FEUDAL SUPERIORITY BY MARGARET 0. MACDOUGALL, F.S.A. Scot. Late Librarian, l nvtrntss Public Library With Tartan and Chief's Arms in Colour, and a Map JOHNSTO N & BACON PUBLISHERS EDINBURGH AND LONDON FIRST PUBLISHED 1953 SECOND EDITION 1963 REPRINTED 1969 REPRINTED 1972 SBN 7179 4529 4 @ Johnston & Bacon Publishers PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LOWE AND BRYDONE ( PRINTERS) LIMITED, LONDON I Duthaich Mlzic Aoidh, familiarly known as the Mackay country, covered approximately five-eighths of the County of Sutherland. -
The Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial Revolution, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1973
124 HISfOIRE SOCIALE - SOCIAL HisrORY ERIC RICHARDS. - The Leviathan of Wealth: The Sutherland Fortune in the Industrial Revolution, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1973. "One of the largest inherited fortunes in modem British history" will require more than one monograph. In this first study the author has confined himself to two important aspects of the investment policy of the Sutherlands: Lancashire railways and Highland clearances. The first he calls "transport innovation" and the second the "promotion of economic change in the Scottish Highland." Only in the concluding chapter is detailed mention made of the family's enormous holdings in government bonds. In 1834 its nominal value was £1.1 million, yielding an annual income of £34,000, by far the largest feature of the Sutherlands' portfolio, yet Dr. Richards dismisses it in a couple of paragraphs. Moreover, it is also only in the last few pages of the book that we are told that the family so overspent its income that it was eating into capital at the rate of more than £15,000 a year. The principal cause was conspicuous consumption: lavish building being an important element. The Sutherland fortune, which by the 1830s produced a gross income of almost £200,000 a year, came into being when George Granville-Leveson Gower (1758-1833), later first Duke of Sutherland, inherited estates in Staffordshire, Shropshire and Yorkshire as well as the profits (after 1803) of the Duke of Bridgewater's canal and married Elizabeth Gordon, Countess of Sutherland (1765-1839), who brought with her almost a million acres of the Highlands, with Dunrobin Castle as its principal seat. -
Live Like a Clan Chief: Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, & Loch
8 Days/7 Nights Departs Daily from Edinburgh Live Like a Clan Chief: Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, & Loch Lomond or Glasgow Sumptuous accommodations offer peaceful nights enroute to the man-made splendor of Scotland's castles and gardens and the natural extravagance of its lochs and mountains. ACCOMMODATIONS •2 Nights Edinburgh •2 Nights Aberdeen •1 Night Loch Lomond or •2 Nights Inverness Glasgow INCLUSIONS •Entrance to Edinburgh Castle •Scottish Heritage Pass •Entrance to Urquhart Castle plus Afternoon Tea •Loch Ness Freedom Cruise •Daily Breakfast ARRIVAL: Arrive into Edinburgh or Glasgow Airport, and pick up your car at the car rental company desk and drive the short distance to your castle or manor house hotel, set in beautiful grounds on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Spend the remainder of the day enjoying your hotel and its facilities, or head into Edinburgh to start exploring Scotland's capital city. Overnight in Edinburgh area. (Accommodations, Edinburgh) EDINBURGH: Today you have a full day to soak up the atmosphere of this exciting city. Edinburgh has a lot of shops, pubs and restaurants to offer the visitor, as well as a good selection of activities to choose from. You can explore the beautiful capital city of Scotland on a sightseeing tour or on foot, to see the orderly streets and mansions of the New Town, and the cobbled, medieval streets of the Old Town. Edinburgh Castle is situated high above the city on an extinct volcano, and houses the Crown Jewels of Scotland. Visit the castle or the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Royal Family's official residence in Scotland. -
Worsley New Hall a Guide to Sources
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by University of Salford Institutional Repository THE LIBRARY Worsley New Hall A guide to sources www.salford.ac.uk 2 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources Headerheader here Sub text Sub header Agnatur? Optiur andande lante verfere, qui ad quis mos ipicium si ullaceri il mo estios eum vellab ius quunte mint. Arum comnita temporia doluptate expli- tatem eossites a nos ped quasiti atibus eos dempores et ad que cus, con prae acepell uptaessed ea sunt modit fugitatio. Nam, sam enti blaccabo. Itate nectur aliquas info Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources 3 Contents Preface 06 1. History of Worsley New Hall 08 2. Archives 10 2.1 British Red Cross Museum and Archives 10 2.2 Cambridge University Library Department of 10 Manuscripts and Archives 2.3 Chetham’s Library, Manchester 10 2.4 Lancashire Archives 11 2.5 Liverpool Record Office 12 2.6 Manchester Archives and Local Studies 12 with Greater Manchester County Record Office 2.7 Northampton Record Office 13 2.8 The Royal Archives 13 2.9 RIBA Library Drawings and Archives Collection 13 2.10 Salford City Archives and Local History Library 20 2.11 Staffordshire Record Office 21 2.12 The University of Salford Archives and Special Collections 22 2.13 Private Collections 23 3. Selected newspaper and journal articles 24 4. Books and pamphlets 26 5. Theses 29 6. Web resources 30 7. Archaeological reports 33 4 Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources header Sub header info Worsley New Hall: A guide to sources 5 A home for a A retreat for A place of beauty. -
The Landowner As Millionaire: the Finances of the Dukes of Devonshire, C
THE AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW ;i¸ SILVE1K JUBILEE P1KIZE ESSAY The Landowner as Millionaire: The Finances of the Dukes of Devonshire, c. I8OO-C. 1926 By DAVID CANNADINE HO were file wealthiest landowners In point of wealth, file House of Lords ex- between the Battle of Waterloo and hibits a standard whi& cannot be equalled in W tlle Battle of Britain? Many names any oilier country. Take the Dukes of were suggested by contemporaries. In I819 ille Northumberland, Devonshire, Sutherland American Ambassador recorded that the "four and Buccleuch, the Marquesses of West- greatest incomes in the kingdom" belonged to minster and Bute, the Earls of Derby, Lons- the Duke of Northumberland, Earl Grosvenor, dale, Dudley mad Leicester, mid Baron the Marquess of Stafford, and the Earl of Overstone, mid where (in the matter of Bridgewater, each of whom was reputed to wealth) will you find illeir equals collec- possess "one hmadred tllousand pounds, clear tively?8 of everything.''~ Forty ),ears later, H. A. Taine And early in the new century, T. H. S. Escott visited ille House of Lords where recorded tllese comments made by a friend on Tlle principal peers present were pointed out the Dukes of Northumberland and Cleveland: to me and named, with details of their These . are the persons who make the enormous fortunes: the largest amount to fortunes of the great privateWest End banks; £3oo,ooo a year. The Duke of Bedford has they take a pride in keeping a standing bal- £220,000 a year from land; the Duke of ance for which they never receive six pence; R.ichmond has 3oo,o00 acres in a single hold- but whose interest would make a hole in the ing.