Monday, September 20, 2010

Kilmartin Church and the Campbells of Duntroon

Inside the Church there are a number of plaques on the walls, some remembering the Malcolms of Poltalloch who purchased Duntroon Castle in the late 1700s, and a couple remembering the previous Campbell Lairds. This one is particularly interesting, I think, evocative of the Scottish aristocracy of the 1700s, and their attempts to make their fortune within the British Empire:


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