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P0322 · Persoon · 1803 - 1885

General Sir James Edward Alexander KStJ CB FRSE FRGS (16 October 1803 – 2 April 1885) was a Scottish traveller, author and soldier in the British Army. Alexander was the driving force behind the placement of Cleopatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment.

Born in Stirling, he was the eldest son of Edward Alexander of Powis, Clackmannanshire, and his second wife Catherine Glas, daughter of John Glas, Provost of Stirling. The family purchased Powis House near Stirling in 1808 from James Mayne (his uncle by marriage) for £26,500. His father, a banker, had to sell Powis House in 1827 on collapse of the Stirling Banking Company. He received his training in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.

In 1837 he married Eveline Marie Mitchell, daughter of Col C. C. Mitchell of the Royal Artillery.

In 1853 he obtained Westerton House in Bridge of Allan, built in 1803 by Dr John Henderson of the East India Company (a cousin and friend). Here he became an elder of Logie Kirk, walking there each Sunday.

He died in Ryde on the Isle of Wight but is buried in Old Logie Churchyard just east of his home town of Stirling. The graveyard lies several hundred metres north of Logie Cemetery and the 19th century Logie Kirk.

After his death his trustees sold Westerton House to Edmund Pullar.

P0328 · Persoon · 1865 - 1963

Mary Williamina Findlater was born to Reverend Eric John Thomson Findlater (1813 - 1886) and Sarah Laurie Borthwick (1823 - 1907) in Lochearnhead on 26 Mar 1866.

Alongside her two sisters, Mary was raised at the Manse of the Lochearnhead Free Church and was said to have led a very conservative and restricted life. All of the sisters were very close and remained so until their respective deaths as none of them married; in 1911, Mary and her two sisters were living together at 5 Southfield Mount, Paignton in Devon.

As a child, Mary was taught by governesses alongside her sisters; one such governess was British botanist and lichenologist Annie Lorrain Smith (1854 - 1937). Following the death of her father in 1886, Mary moved with her family to Prestonpans, East Lothian. Here Mary and Jane tried to help the family finances by writing, while Sarah worked as a nurse. It was ten years before Jane’s book 'The Green Graves of Balgowrie' (1896) (which was inspired by her mother’s family history) gained popularity and success. After a few years, Mary and her family moved again, this time further south in search of a warmer climate for their mother’s health.

From this point until the outbreak of World War One, Mary and Jane published a series of novels and their popularity led to a much wider social circle, this led them to meeting English actress Ellen Terry (1847 - 1928) and English novelist Mary Cholmondeley (1859 - 1925). Both Mary and Jane's literary work focused on the small details of everyday life as well as the restrictions placed upon women at the start of the 20th century in Scotland. Mary's work in particular was known for her surprisingly modern heroines who often rejected the expected path of marriage and motherhood, preferring female companionship and a life in the arts. Moving into the 1920s, the Findlater Sister's work was deemed old fashioned, and 'Beneath the Visiting Moon' (1923) was their last book. The sisters then moved from Devon to Rye on the south coast, which is where their eldest sister died. At the onset of World War Two, Mary and her sister managed to return to Perthshire safely. They lived at the ‘Four Hollies’ in Comrie, which was owned by their distant relations the MacLagans.

Mary remained in the home she stayed in with Jane until she passed away on 22 Nov 1963, she is buried alongside Jane in the MacLagan Family Graveyard in Comrie. The gravestone inscriptions read: ‘Jane Helen Findlater, 4 November 1866 - 20 May 1946. ‘Jesus said: I am the Light of the World; he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life.’' and ‘Mary Williamina Findlater, 26 March 1865 - 22 November 1963. ‘He that dwellest in love dwellest in God.’'.

P0331 · Persoon · 1811 - 1845

Born Perthshire, 1811, youngest son of Robert P., farmer. Educated at University of Glasgow; licensed by Presbytery of Dunblane, 25th Nov. 1834; pres. by William Forbes of Callander; ordained 26th Sept. 1836; died unmarr. 14th May 1845. Publication by him: New Statistical Account, September, 1844, Dalry, Vol.4, Kirkcudbright, p.369.

P0333 · Persoon · 1921 - 2021

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark,[1] later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921[fn 1] – 9 April 2021), was consort of the British monarch from 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021 as the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He is the longest-serving royal consort in history.

P0334 · Persoon · 1922 - 2001

Sir Kenneth John Wilson Alexander FRSE (14 March 1922 – 27 March 2001) was a Scottish economist and university administrator. He also had strong links to the Scottish steel and shipbuilding industries. He also served as the Principal of Stirling University (1981–86), and the Chancellor of Aberdeen University (1986–96).

P0338 · Persoon · 1929 - 1989

Sir Alexander MacPherson Fletcher (26 August 1929 – 18 September 1989), sometimes known as Alex Fletcher, was a British Conservative Party politician.

He was born in Greenock in western Scotland. He was married to Christine Anne Buchanan (1926-2008). He was a company director and a chartered accountant and served as a member of East Kilbride Development Corporation from 1971 to 1973. He was also an Elder of the Church of Scotland.

P0339 · Persoon · 1914 - 2005

James Fraser McLuskey, MC (19 September 1914 – 24 July 2005) was a British Church of Scotland minister, who served as a military chaplain with the Special Air Service during World War II. He later went on to become the minister of St Columba's, the larger of the Church of Scotland's two congregations in London. He also served as Moderator of the General Assembly from 1983 to 1984.

Moir of Leckie
F0009 · Familie · 18th - 19th century

The origin of Moir of Leckie family dates to the middle of the 18th century when Robert Graham of Callender and Boquhapple, assumed the name of Moir on succeeding to the estate of Leckie, near Stirling. He married in 1769 and was succeeded by his eldest son Charles Alexander Graham Moir (d 1845).