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in 1824 and who died in 1840, though it has been dormant since the death of his nephew, Adam the 8th/11th
Viscount, in 1847. The castle was extensively remodelled and modernised during the 19th century, when the courtyard wall and the north-east tower were removed with the use of gunpowder. The south
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on record, the head of which rested on his shoulder, with the tail trailing on the ground. Its weight was seventy-two pounds, and it measured about seven feet in length. The skeleton of the head was for many years preserved on display in the
Billiard Room at Kenmure Castle where it was studied and
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Charles I in 1633. The core of the present building is the castle which was largely erected in the 17th century, though possibly including earlier building work. The castle was laid out on the west and south sides of a courtyard, with the north and east sides formed by a high wall. The entrance
41:, Galloway, south-west Scotland. The site was occupied from the Middle Ages, and the house incorporates part of a 17th-century castle. This was remodelled in the 19th century, but the house has been derelict since the mid-20th century. It was the seat of the Gordon family of
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314:(1759–1837), was a Church of England priest and artist. For the last ten years of his life he served as domestic chaplain to Viscount Kenmure at Kenmure Castle where he died on 5 Nov. 1837, aged 78. By his wife Ann Russell he was father of the
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222:. He was battalion commander of the Stewartry Home Guard. He died in 1943 at Kenmure Castle and is buried in Kells Churchyard. From about the late 1940s to 1957 it operated as an hotel run by Stanley Dobson, (brother of
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was employed to remodel the west range. Further extensions were made in 1908 by the architect
Christian Elliot. In 1923, the estate was sold but the castle itself was let to and later bought by
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wrote to Mary, Queen of Scots that he would not accept Regent Moray's terms and join his side. After his death an inventory was made of all the furnishings in
Kenmure Castle on 3 December 1604.
69:, rulers of a semi-independent kingdom in south-west Scotland until the 13th century, may have had a fortress here. Kenmure has been suggested as a possible birthplace in 1249 of
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The last and heavenly
Speeches and glorious Departure of John, Viscount Kenmure, printed in Edinburgh in 1649, by Evan Tyler, His Majesty's Printer. It was reprinted in 1827.
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ARBB, RBA (1894–1980) Scottish portrait painter is said to have rented the castle in the 1930s and 1940s to entertain and paint his fashionable portraits and paintings.
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274:(c. 1600 – 1661) Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, attended John Gordon 1st Viscount Kenmure on his deathbed and later wrote a tract entitled "
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Kenmure became a property of the Gordon family from 1297, when they arrived from
Berwickshire. The Gordons also built a castle on an island in
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and was subsequently beheaded and his estates forfeit. Some accounts state that his body was returned to his family at
Kenmure for burial.
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