IN BRIEF
- In the graveyard of Greyfriars Kirk in
Edinburgh there is a mausoleum belonging to the Fergusons
of Pitfour. Built by Major Patrick Ferguson in 1775 it
contains his family except for his daughter Betty who
lies beside her husband Alexander Scrymgeour-Wedderburn
at Balmerino.
- Happy Birthday to Christina Scrymgeour of
Craighead Nursing Home, Newport-on-Tay who reached the
grand age of 90 on 4th April 1999.
- The Dundee University Law Library
celebrated its 20th anniversary in the
Scrymgeour Building by having a facelift. This has
provided more space for books as well as a new
information technology centre and a specialist centre. It
was reopened in October 1998.
- Two Junior Scrimgeours came together at
the annual concert by the Angus Schools Orchestras and
Bands in March this year when the Arbroath Junior Strings
included Alice Scrimgeour, Granddaughter of the late Bert
Scrimgeour and Sam Scrimgeour, Grandson of Murray
Scrimgeour, my predecessor as editor.
- A recent article in the National
Trusts magazine features a property called Batemans
in East Sussex, which was purchased in 1902 by Rudyard
Kipling from Alexander Scrimgeour, the stockbroker.
- If you are in the market for a special
chair and happen to be in Finsbury Park or Battersea Rise
in London, a young man called Jamie Scrimgeour has opened
two chair shops in partnership which got a very good
write up in SW magazine.