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P0029 · Person · 1768 – 1836

Thomas Graham, fourth son of William Graham of Airth and his wife Anne Stirling. Succeeded to the estates of his father in Airth after the death of his eldest brother James in 1805. Succeeded to Strowan in Perthshire and Ardoch estate in St Ann, Jamaica, in trust on the death of his uncle General Sir Thomas Stirling in 1808. Married Caroline Mary, only daughter of Major James Home of the Blackadder family, 09/02/1807. When his uncle wrote his trust settlement in 1804, he described Thomas as Captain of the Windham, East Indiaman. Thomas Graham appears to have sold the estate c. 1825-1826, possibly subject to annuities or legacies to other heirs of Charles Stirling.

P0134 · Person · 1771 – 1833

WILLIAM MACGREGOR STIRLING, born 16th Oct. 1771, only son of predecessor; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; pres. by James Erskine of Cardross 3rd June ; ord. (assistant and successor) 15th Aug. 1799; dep. on his own confession of immorality by the Presb. 2nd Dec. 1823; this was affirmed by the Synod but reversed by the Assembly 31st May 1824. He retired and an assistant was appointed. He died at Stockbridge, Edinburgh, 23rd Jan. 1833. Minister at Port of Menteith.

He devoted much of his time to historical and antiquarian pursuits and to a love of the fine arts. To him Patrick Fraser Tytler, author of the History of Scotland, was
indebted for information concerning many valuable facts and documents. He marr. (1) 20th April 1801, Susan (died 4th Oct. 1804), daugh. of John Allan, min. of Row, and had issue
Robert, M.A. (Glasgow 1820), student of theology, 1823-4, born 9th May 1802, went to Jamaica:

He m. (2) 7th April 1823, Christian Campbell M'Tavish, who died 14th June 1869, and had issue-
John Evan, born 28th July 1823;
Susan, born 26th March 1825;
Jane Elizabeth, born 1826.

P0005 · Person · 1720 – 1788

Prince Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart, eldest son of James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender or James III, and of the Princess Clementine, a daughter of Prince James Sobieski, was born at Rome on 31 December 1720. He is commonly styled Bonnie Prince Charlie or the Young Pretender. His main claim to long-lasting fame was his leadership of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46, which aimed at reinstating the Stuarts as kings of Great Britain but which ended in inglorious failure at the battle of Culloden in April 1746. He spent the majority of his life abroad, becoming titular king as succeeding to his father on his death in 1766. After the failure of the '45 he became increasingly dependent on alcohol which alienated his followers. He died at Rome on 31 January 1788.

P0108 · Person · 1688 – 1766

James Francis Edward Stuart, prince of Wales, known as the Chevalier de St. George, and also as the Old Pretender (and sometimes as James III), only son of King James II with his second wife, Mary of Modena, was born at St. James's Palace, London, on 10 June 1688.

He was brought up in France and, on his father?s death in 1701, he was declared King there though this was not legally recognised as he was a Catholic. He was encouraged to claim his kingdom following the 1707 Act of Union, but the voyage was abortive and he returned to France without landing. He fought with the French forces in the following years until rising Jacobite sympathy persuaded him to sail once again for Scotland, only to find that the Jacobite forces were following the Battle of Sheriffmuir, in disarray. James spent some weeks in Scotland before escaping once again to France. He lived first in Lorraine, then in Italy, then in Spain, where he participated in an ill-fated expedition against England.

He finally settled in Rome, and on 28 May 1719 married Clementina Sobieski, with whom he had two sons. He neglected his wife, on account of which she retired to a nunnery in 1725. Their eldest son, Prince Charles Edward Louis Philip Casimir Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charlie), unsuccessfully attempted to reclaim the throne of Great Britain for the Stuarts in the Jacobite rebellion of 1745-46. James died at Rome on 1 January 1766.

P0156 · Person · 1744 – 1814

John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute PC, FRS (30 June 1744 – 16 November 1814), styled Lord Mount Stuart until 1792 and known as The Earl of Bute between 1792 and 1794, was a British nobleman, coalfield owner, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1766 to 1776.

Lord Mount Stuart was returned as Tory Member of Parliament for Bossiney at a by-election in 1766. He was returned in the general elections of 1768 and 1774. On 2 November 1775 he announced in the House of Commons his intention to introduce a bill to establish a militia in Scotland, and during the next few months James Boswell assisted in seeking support for the bill in Scotland. In March 1776 the bill was debated, but ultimately failed to pass. He left the House of Commons in 1776 when he was elevated to the Peerage of Great Britain in his own right as Baron Cardiff, of Cardiff Castle in the County of Glamorgan. Though this title was also used, he continued to be known by his courtesy title of Lord Mount Stuart. (He ranked higher in the order of precedence as the heir to an earldom than he did as a substantive baron.) He served as Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan from 1772 to 1793 and from 1794 to his death.

In 1779 Lord Mount Stuart was sworn of the Privy Council and was sent as an envoy to the court of Turin. He was ambassador to Spain in 1783.[6] He held the sinecure of Auditor of the imprests from 1781 until the abolition of the office in 1785, upon which he was paid £7000 compensation. He was the first Lord Lieutenant of Buteshire from 1794 until his death.

Lord Mount Stuart succeeded his father in the earldom in 1792. In 1794 he was created Viscount Mountjoy, in the Isle of Wight, Earl of Windsor and Marquess of Bute. (The Mountjoy and Windsor titles recognised the Barony of Mountjoy and Viscountcy of Windsor previously held by his father-in-law, the 2nd Viscount Windsor, which had both become extinct on Lord Windsor's death in 1758.) Lord Bute was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society on 12 December 1799.

P0283 · Person · 1757 - 1834

Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads (a pun on the Colossus of Rhodes), and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he held for 14 years until his death.

P0014 · Person · 1784 – 1865

Lord Palmerston, in full Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, of Palmerston in the County of Dublin, Baron Temple, of Mount Temple in the County of Sligo, byname Pam, (born October 20, 1784, Broadlands, Hampshire, England—died October 18, 1865, Brocket Hall, Hertfordshire), English Whig-Liberal statesman whose long career, including many years as British foreign secretary (1830–34, 1835–41, and 1846–51) and prime minister (1855–58 and 1859–65), made him a symbol of British nationalism.

Thomas Bryson
GB224/PD212 · Person · c.1895 - c.1970

Dates of birth and death not known. Born c.1895. Lived at 113 Stirling Street, Denny during the time of the First World War. Married Margaret Harkness June 1918. Brothers John, Joseph and Lewis. The papers held relating to him at the Council Archives appear to have been in his possession even though some of them do not relate to the Bryson family, it may be assumed that they concern wider family members. The correspondence in the collection is largely written to Thomas from family members and friends. It is significant because two of his brothers were on active service in the First World War, and wrote to Thomas from where they trained and where they were posted. Thomas worked as a miner throughout the First World War as his was the equivalent of a ‘reserved occupation’ – coal was required for the war effort. Thomas’ Father was also Thomas, we know this as Thomas is addressed as ‘Thomas junior’ on some of the envelopes in the collection. His grandfather was William Bryson. Thomas had three brothers. His brother Joseph appears to have been living locally and working through the war. Brother John enlisted in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He sustained an injury to his arm whilst on active service in May 1915, and convalesced after this until he was sent to serve in Northern Ireland in March 1916. Brother Lewis enlisted in the Royal Navy and trained at Portsmouth. He was killed on HMS Paxton when the vessel was torpedoed by a German U-boat in May 1917. Thomas had a fiancée, Maggie Harkness, and married in June 1918. The papers found their way to the Archives after they were handed in to the shop next to the Miners’ memorial in Fallin.

P0073 · Person · d. 1788

Minister of Gargunnock. Presented by Sir John Stewart of Allenbank in 1766 as minister of St Ninians Church. Admitted after 8 year fight in 1773. Opponents formed the Relief Church of St Ninians. Died in 1788.