Andrew Hamilton Tyndall Bruce 1842 - 1897
Andrew Hamilton Tyndall Bruce , heir to his father. J.P., D.L., "late of Brainbridge House, Bishopstoke" (1897) Succeeded to Falkland House, which he sold in 1887. A historical perspective, drawn from the Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical and Historical, edited by Francis H. Groome and originally published in parts by Thomas C. Jack, Grange Publishing Works, Edinburgh between 1882 and 1885. The parish of Falkland contains also the villages of Freuchie and Newton of Falkland. It is bounded N by Auchtermuchty, E by Kettle, SE by Markinch, S by Leslie, SW by Portmoak in Kinross-shire, and W and NW by Strathmiglo. Its greatest length, from E to W, is 53/8miles; its greatest breadth, from N to S, is 3¾ miles; and its area is 8265¼acres. By Conland, Maspie, and other small burns, the drainage is carried partly southward to the Leven, but mainly northward to the Eden, which flows just outside the northern boundary; and the highest point in Falkland between the two river-basins is the East Lomond (1471 feet), since the loftier West Lomond (1713) falls within the Strathmiglo border. The parts of the parish to the N and E of the town sink to 130 feet above the sea, and are almost a dead level; but most of the surface is finely diversified with gentle valleys and wooded hillsides. The rocks are variously eruptive and carboniferous- greenstone and limestone; and a vein of galena, discovered about 1783 on the S side of the East Lomond, was thought to be argentiferous, but never repaid the cost of working. The soil, too, varies, but is mainly a fertile light friable loam. Woods and plantations cover some 400 acres; about a fifth of the entire area is pastoral or waste; and all the rest of the land is under cultivation. Kilgour, 2¼ miles W by N of the town, was the site of the ancient parish church, and anciently gave name to the entire parish. Traces of several prehistoric forts are on the Lomond hills; remains of extensive ancient military lines are in the lands of Nuthill; and several old coins, chiefly of Charles I. and Charles II., have been found among the ruins of Falkland Palace. The 'Jenny Nettles' of song hanged herself on a tree in Falkland Wood, and was buried under a cairn on the Nuthill estate. Falkland House, or Nuthill, ¾ mile W of the town, was built in 1839-44, after designs by Mr Burn, of Edinburgh, at a cost of at least £30,000, and is a fine edifice in the Tudor style, with a pleasant well-wooded park. Its owner, Andrew Hamilton Tyndall-Bruce, Esq. (b. 1842; suc. 1874), holds 7058 acres in the shire, valued at £10,092 per annum. Three other proprietors hold each an annual value of £500 and upwards, 9 of between £100 and £500, 10 of from £50 to £100, and 31 of from £20 to £50. In the presbytery of Cupar and synod of Fife, this parish since 1880 has been ecclesiastically divided into Freuchie and Falkland, the latter a living worth £358. Two public schools, Falkland and Freuchie, with respective accommodation for 280 and 255 children, had (1881) an average attendance of 182 and 255, and grants of £169, 1s. 4d. and £178, 10s. Valuation (1866) £10, 847, 6s. 11d., (1882) £12, 518, 16s. 2d. Pop. (1801) 2211, (1831) 2658, (1861) 2937, (1871) 3069, (1881) 2698, of whom 1581 were in Falkland q. s. parish.—Ord. Sur., sh. 40, 1867. See James W. Taylor's Some Hitorical Antiquities, chiefly Ecclesiastical, connected with Falkland, Kettle, and Leslie (Cupar, 1861). --------------- Crichton-Stuart Family In 1887 Andrew Hamilton-Tyndall-Bruce sold the Falkland and Reedie estate together with the Hereditary Keeper and Macer offices, to John Partick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute for £260,000. At the same time he sold Myres Castle with its 2 acre garden, 6 acre woods and 26 acre grass parks to the Marquess's great friend James Ogilvy Fairlie, 3rd son of Colonel James Ogilvy Fairlie of Coodham, Ayrshire. Unaware that James Scrymgeour had sold the right to the Macership to George Moncrieff of Easter cash and later of Reedie in 1606, James Fairlie contested the right of the Marquess to the Myres Macership at the Court of Session in 1895. By this time the Macership was a hereditary office which had the right of appointing the fourth Macer at the Edinburgh Court of Session. The crown appointed the other three Macers. The Court case had come about because the Macer appointed by Colonel Walter Hamilton-Tyndall-Bruce had died. However, the Court of Session found against James Fairlie because it considered the Macership went with the ancient Barony of Myres represented by the lands now held by Reedie farm, bought by the Marquess, and not by the grass parks and woods that went with the purchase of Myres Castle. In 1952 the owner of Falkland Palace was Major Michael Crichton-Stuart, grandson of the 3rd Marquess. He presented the Palace to the National Trust for Scotland together with an endowment fund for its future upkeep. -------------- British Library: Record details Previous Next Name: Andrew HAMILTON-BRUCE Event type: Biography Start date: Start year: End date: End year: Biographical notes: See HAMILTON, Andrew Transcribed by: British Library India Office Records Reference: L/AG/23/10/1-2 Source name: Source year: Source edition: Presidency: Of Hatfield (1890).
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| Born: Peebles, , , Scotland 30th Mar 1842 | Baptised: Peebles, , , Scotland 25th Jan 1843
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| 30th Mar 1842 | Born (birth) Peebles, Scotland | | 25th Jan 1843 | Baptised (baptism) Peebles, Scotland | | 1851 | Son in 1851 census (census) Peebles, Scotland | | 29th Apr 1897 | Died (death) |
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