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Dunmore Tower
Elphinstone Tower, also known as Dunmore Tower or Airth Tower, is a ruined tower house on the Dunmore Estate in central Scotland. It is located north-west of Airth and east of Stirling in the Falkirk council area. The 16th-century ruin is protected as a category C(S) listed building. History The tower dates to the early 16th century, when it was built by Sir John Elphinstone as the seat of the barony of Elphinstone. Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone added a gallery and a new hall before his death in 1638.''HMC 9th Report: Lord Elphinstone'' (London, 1884), p. 193-4. The Elphinstone Estate was purchased for £16,000 by John Murray, son of the 3rd Earl of Dunmore, in 1754. Two years later he inherited the earldom, and renamed the estate Dunmore after his title. Lord Dunmore built the famous Dunmore Pineapple elsewhere on the estate in 1761. The tower was extended at some point, although there is little evidence that it was occupied. In the 1820s the 5th Earl commis ...
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Elphinstone Tower (25565323455)
Elphinstone Tower may refer to: * Elphinstone Tower, Falkirk, a ruined tower house on the Dunmore Estate in central Scotland * Elphinstone Tower (East Lothian) * Elphinstone Tower, a tower of Stirling Castle * Elphinstone Tower, a tower of Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire See also * Elphinstone Place Elphinstone Place is a cancelled skyscraper project that was scheduled to be built in Glasgow, Scotland. The building, which had been in the planning stage since 2004 would have been a mixed-use development consisting of office, retail and resi ...
, a proposed tower block in Glasgow, cancelled in July 2008 {{disambiguation ...
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Royal Commission On The Ancient And Historical Monuments Of Scotland
The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) was an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government that was "sponsored" inanced and with oversightthrough Historic Scotland, an executive agency of the Scottish Government. As one of the country's National Collections, it was responsible for recording, interpreting and collecting information about the built and historic environment. This information, which relates to buildings, sites, and ancient monuments of archaeological, architectural and historical interest (including maritime sites and underwater constructions), as well as historical aspects of the landscape, was then made available to the public, mainly at no cost. It was established (shortly ahead of parallel commissions for Wales and England) by a Royal Warrant of 1908, which was revised in 1992. The RCAHMS merged with government agency Historic Scotland to form Historic Environment Scotland, a new executive non ...
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Dunmore, Falkirk
Dunmore is a small village in the Falkirk council area of Scotland. It lies south east of Stirling and north of Falkirk. The village lies along the A905 road between Throsk and Airth on the banks of the River Forth. The population of Dunmore was recorded as 70 in the United Kingdom Census 2001, and as 79 in the census of 1991. Formerly known as Elphinstone Pans, the settlement was entirely remodelled as a planned village in the 1840s by the local landowner, the Countess of Dunmore. Dunmore is a conservation area. Landmarks The Dunmore Pineapple, an 18th-century folly owned by the National Trust for Scotland, lies south of Dunmore, on the estate of the now-derelict Dunmore Park House. Notable people *Dr L. W. Hinxman FRSE Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's national academy of science and Literature, letters, judged to be "eminently distinguished in their subject". .. ...
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Dunmore Park
Dunmore from the or , meaning "great fort", may refer to: People * Dunmore (surname) * Earl of Dunmore, a title in the Peerage of Scotland, includes a list of earls * Countess of Dunmore (other), a list of wives of earls of Dunmore Places Australia * Dunmore, New South Wales, a suburb of Shellharbour City ** Dunmore railway station * Dunmore, Queensland, a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region Ireland * Dunmore, County Galway, a town * Dunmore, County Kilkenny, a civil parish in County Kilkenny * Dunmore Cave, County Kilkenny * Dunmore Head, in County kerry United States * Dunmore, Pennsylvania, a borough * Dunmore County, former name of Shenandoah County, Virginia * Dunmore, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Lake Dunmore, Vermont Elsewhere * Dunmore Town, Bahamas * Dunmore, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet * Dunmore, Falkirk, Scotland, a village Other uses * Dunmore School District, Pennsylvania * Dunmore High School, Pennsylvania * Dunmore McHales ...
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George Murray, 5th Earl Of Dunmore
George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore FRSE (30 April 1762 – 11 November 1836), known as Viscount of Fincastle until 1809, was a Scottish peer. Early life Murray was the eldest son of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, and Lady Charlotte (née Stewart). Among his siblings were Lady Catherine Murray (wife of MP Hon. Edward Bouverie, a son of the 1st Earl of Radnor), and Lady Augusta Murray (who married Prince Augustus Frederick, son of King George III). His paternal grandparents were William Murray, 3rd Earl of Dunmore (a nephew of the 2nd Earl of Dunmore) and Catherine Nairne. His father joined the ill-fated Rising of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" and was appointed as a page to Prince Charles. His maternal grandparents were Alexander Stewart, 6th Earl of Galloway and Lady Catherine Cochrane (the youngest daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald). He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1778. Career As Lord Fincastle, a courtesy title afforded to him as the heir to the earl ...
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Dunmore Pineapple
Dunmore from the or , meaning "great fort", may refer to: People * Dunmore (surname) * Earl of Dunmore, a title in the Peerage of Scotland, includes a list of earls * Countess of Dunmore (other), a list of wives of earls of Dunmore Places Australia * Dunmore, New South Wales, a suburb of Shellharbour City ** Dunmore railway station * Dunmore, Queensland, a rural locality in the Toowoomba Region Ireland * Dunmore, County Galway, a town * Dunmore, County Kilkenny, a civil parish in County Kilkenny * Dunmore Cave, County Kilkenny * Dunmore Head, in County kerry United States * Dunmore, Pennsylvania, a borough * Dunmore County, former name of Shenandoah County, Virginia * Dunmore, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Lake Dunmore, Vermont Elsewhere * Dunmore Town, Bahamas * Dunmore, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet * Dunmore, Falkirk, Scotland, a village Other uses * Dunmore School District, Pennsylvania * Dunmore High School, Pennsylvania * Dunmore McHales ...
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Earl Of Dunmore
Earl of Dunmore is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The title Earl of Dunmore was created in 1686 for Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore, Lord Charles Murray, son of John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl. The title passed down through generations, with Scottish representative peers, various earls serving in the House of Lords as Scottish Representative peer, Representative Peers and holding other political positions. The John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, 4th Earl was a colonial governor in New York, Virginia, and the Bahamas, while the George Murray, 5th Earl of Dunmore, 5th Earl bought the Estate of Harris in 1834. The Charles Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore, 7th Earl served under Benjamin Disraeli and was the Lord Lieutenant of Stirlingshire. The Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore, 8th Earl received the Victoria Cross and held political office as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms. The barony of Dunmore became extinct after the 9th Earl's death in 1980, but ...
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John Murray, 4th Earl Of Dunmore
John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore (1730 – 25 February 1809) was a British colonial administrator who served as the List of colonial governors of Virginia, governor of Virginia from 1771 to 1775. Dunmore was named List of colonial governors of New York, governor of New York in 1770. He succeeded to the same position in the colony of Virginia the following year after the death of Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt. As Virginia's governor, Dunmore directed a series of campaigns against the trans-Appalachian Native Americans in the United States, Indians, known as Lord Dunmore's War. He is noted for issuing a 1775 document, Dunmore's Proclamation, offering freedom to Slavery in the colonial history of the United States, slaves who fought for the British Crown against Patriot (American Revolution), Patriot rebels in Virginia. Dunmore fled to New York after the burning of Norfolk in 1776 and later returned to Britain. He was List of governors of the Bahamas, Governor of the Baha ...
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Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone
Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone (1552-1638), was a Scottish courtier, landowner, and Lord Treasurer. Alexander Elphinstone was the son of Robert Elphinstone, 3rd Lord Elphinstone (1530-1602) and Margaret Drummond, daughter of Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray, Sir John Drummond of Innerpeffray and Margaret Stewart, Lady Gordon, Margaret Stewart, daughter of James IV of Scotland. The Elphinstone lands were to the south and east of Stirling centred on the settlement of Elphinstone Tower, Falkirk, Elphinstone and Dunmore Pineapple, Dunmore near the River Forth, Forth. His neighbours included the Robert Drummond of Carnock, Drummonds of Carnock and Bannockburn and the Airth Castle, Bruces of Airth. His family were longstanding rivals of the John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1558–1634), Erskine Earls of Mar. Until his father's death in 1602, he was known as "Alexander, Master of Elphinstone". He joined the court of James VI of Scotland, James VI as a gentleman of the bedc ...
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Canmore (database)
Canmore is an online database or index to information on over 320,000 archaeological sites, monuments, and buildings in Scotland. It was launched by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland in 1997 as the Computer Application for National MOnuments Record Enquiries. Canmore provided access to the National Monuments Record of Scotland (NMRS), which was founded in 1966 as an amalgam of the important archive of plans and photographs held by the RCAHMS and the Ministry of Public Building and Works. The NMRS was further developed with material from the Scottish National Buildings Record, the National Art Survey, the Ordnance Survey and the Scottish Office Air Photographs Unit. Historic Environment Scotland has maintained Canmore since 2015. The Canmore website now provides access to the National Record of the Historic Environment, formerly the National Monuments Record of Scotland, and contains around 1.3 million catalogue entries. It includes marine m ...
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Tower Houses In Britain And Ireland
Tower houses () appeared on the Islands of Ireland and Great Britain starting from the High Middle Ages. These house-fortifications were constructed in the wilder parts of Great Britain and Ireland, particularly in Scotland, and throughout Ireland, until at least up to the 17th century. The remains of such structures are dotted around the Irish and Scottish countryside, with a particular concentration in the Scottish Borders where they include peel towers and bastle houses. Some are still intact and even inhabited today, while others stand as ruined shells. Scottish tower houses Tower houses are often called castles, and despite their characteristic compact footprint size, they are formidable habitations and there is no clear distinction between a castle and a tower house. In Scotland a classification system has been widely accepted based on ground plan, such as the L-plan castle style, one example being the original layout (prior to enlargement) of Muchalls Castle in Scotland ...
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Scottish Feudal Barony
In Scotland, "baron" or "baroness" is a rank of the ancient nobility of the Baronage of Scotland, a hereditary Imperial, royal and noble ranks, title of honour, and refers to the holder of a barony, erected into a free barony by Crown Charter, this being the status of a minor baron, recognised by the crown as noble, but not a peer. The Court of the Lord Lyon representing the monarch in Scotland, institutional writers, the registry of Scots Nobility, the Scottish Law Commission Government Website, UK Government Legislation Website and the Scottish Parliament all refer to the noble title of a Scottish baron. These titles were historically called feudal titles, which is incorrect today. When Scotland abolished feudalism in 2004, baronial titles that were once feudal baronies were transformed into personal dignities in law (or baronage titles), disconnected from territorial privileges. Rights in relation to Parliament Some sources, such as the Manorial Society of Great Britain, M ...
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