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University of Edinburgh
Wm. Laurie, Sec[retary]
John Brown sc N.Bridge Edin.
Around the text are depictions of historical Scottish and Gothic items, such as swords, armour, thistles, the Scottish coat of arms
and at the bottom are Masonic regalia and insignia.
On 15th August 1840, the 69th anniversary of Scotts death, the official foundation stone was laid. Edinburgh declared a public
holiday and large crowds gathered. In the foundations were deposited a glass jar 'time capsule' and two bronze plaques - one from
the Freemasons, the other celebrating the author.
This silver trowel with a mahogany handle was used during the ceremony for laying the foundation stone of the
monument. It has an engraved border of a rolling thistle flower and leaf, and on it is written:
‘To Commemorate the Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Monument at Edinburgh in honour of
the Immortal Scott.
This trowel to be used at the ceremonial was presented to the Right Honourable Sir James Forrest of
Comiston Bart., Lord Provost of Edinburgh, Most Worshipful Grand Mason over all Scotland.
The Right Worshipful Master, Office Bearers and Brethren of the Grand Masters Mother Lodge, The
Antient Lodge of Edinburgh No.92. Aug 15th 1840.'
The trowel can be found on display at the Writers’ Museum, Lady Stair’s Close, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.
56. John, Viscount Glenorchy, afterwards 2nd Marquis of Breadalbane 1824-26
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell%2C_2nd_Marquess_of_Breadalbane
John Campbell, 2nd Marquess of Breadalbane KT PC FRS (26 October 1796–8 November 1862),
was a Scottish nobleman and politician.
He was styled as Lord Glenorchy until 1831, Earl of Ormelie from 1831 to 1834 and Marquess of
Breadalbane from 1834. He was appointed a Knight of the Thistle in 1838 and a Privy Counsellor in
1848.
He was Member of Parliament for Okehampton from 1820 to 1826, and for Perthshire in 1832. He
was Lord Lieutenant of Argyllshire from 1839 to 1862.
He entertained Queen Victoria at Taymouth Castle in 1842, and was a supporter of the Free Church
of Scotland during the disruption in the 1840s. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1834.
http://www.perthshireheritage.co.uk/Glenorchy.html
m. at Kenmore on 23 November 1821, Eliza, daughter of George Baillie of Jerviswood, (c/d 23
November, 1821. She was b. on 29 June 1803, and d. 28 August 1861).
http://www.perthshirediary.com/html/day0716.html
When the 2nd Marquis of Breadalbane died in 1862 there were no children to succeed him but plenty of claimants to the estate and
the Earldom. There was Donald Campbell of Fort William claiming direct descent from the eldest son of the first Earl who died in
1717; and John McCallum allegedly descended from a daughter born of the 3rd Earl’s second marriage. Neither could provide
documentary evidence and their claims were rejected.
But there were more substantial claims from descendants of William Campbell of Glenfalloch (born 1621), the third surviving son of
Sir Robert Campbell, and after much examination of old papers the House of Lords decided that John Alexander Gavin Campbell of
Glenfalloch was the rightful heir.
His relationship to the 2nd Marquis was that of a fourth cousin twice removed, and his succession was bitterly opposed by his
second cousin, Charles Campbell of Boreland on the grounds that Gavin Campbell’s grandfather was not the legitimate son of his
father. It was a complicated case and it was five years before Gavin Campbell was formally created 6th Earl of Breadalbane on July
16th 1867.
Taymouth Castle was therefore unoccupied when Queen Victoria paid a second visit to Kenmore in 1866. She mentions her visit in
a rather sad little footnote in her Highland Journals. I revisited Taymouth last autumn from Dunkeld with Louise, the Dowager
Duchess of Atholl and Miss MacGregor. As we could not have driven through the grounds without asking permission and we did not
wish to be known, we contented ourselves with getting out at a gate close to a small fort.
We got out and looked from this height upon the house below, the mist having cleared away sufficiently to show us everything; and
then unknown, quite in private, I gazed - not without deep emotion - on the scene of our reception twenty four years ago, by dear
Lord Breadalbane, in a princely style, not to be equalled in grandeur and poetic effect. Albert and I were then only twenty three,
young and happy. How many are gone that were with us then. I was very glad to have seen it again. It seemed unaltered."
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=campbell_chiefs&id=I3119
http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/families/cambells_breadalbane.htm
The second Marquis of Breadalbane represented Perthshire in the Parliament of 1832, was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1838,
was elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1841, and in 1848 was appointed Lord Chamberlain. His lordship was a
zealous supporter of the Free Church. He married, in 1821, Eliza, eldest daughter of George Baillie, Esq., of Jerviswood, a lady of
great amiability and of remarkable beauty, who predeceased him. At his death, without issue, in 1862, the Marquisate and Barony of
Breadalbane and the Earldom of Ormelie, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, became extinct. The Scottish honours were
claimed by John Alexander Gavin Campbell, of Glenfalloch, and by Charles William Campbell, of Borland. Both claimants were
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