Airthrey Castle
Airthrey Castle is a castle in the Scottish administrative unit of Stirling and is now part of the University of Stirling .
There are two possible explanations for where the name “Airthrey” could come from: It could be a corruption of “Ard-rhedadie” (German: high or rising road; probably meant the old road to Sheriffmuir ) or from Scottish Gaelic "Aithrin" (German: pointed point or conflict) should be derived. This could refer to a battle near the castle in 839 in which the Picts were defeated by the Scots under Kenneth McAlpin .
The name appears in a charter of King David I that is said to date from before 1146. In 1370 the property was lent to Sir John Herice , keeper of the nearby Stirling Castle . Then it fell to William Graham, 3rd Lord Graham , as reward for his courage in the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488, in which King James III. was killed trying to subdue a group of rebel barons. He was named Earl of Montrose in 1504 , but died in the Battle of Flodden Field in 1513 . The property remained in the possession of the Graham clan until James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose , who fought in a campaign in support of King Charles I of England from 1644 to 1650. At the time, the Airthrey estate was in the hands of a smaller branch of the Grahams.
In 1678 John Hope from Hopetoun bought the property; he was followed by Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun , who moved into the House of Lords in 1703 with the titles of Viscount Airthire , Baron Hope and Earl of Hopetoun . In 1759 the property was sold to Captain Robert Haldane of Plean . The 147 hectare site and the artificial lake were laid out by landscape architect Thomas White for the Haldane family at the end of the 18th century . In 1791, Captain Haldane's nephew, Robert Haldane , commissioned the great architect Robert Adam to design the basis of what is now Airthrey Castle. Despite this effort, Haldane sold the property to Sir Robert Abercromby in 1798 .
The castle and estate remained in the hands of the Abercromby family until 1889 , when Donald Graham bought them and had extensive additions to the castle built in 1889–1891.
From World War II to 1969, Airthrey Castle was used as a maternity hospital, complementing the Stirling Royal Infirmary .
In the 1960s, following the Robbins Report, the property was chosen as the location of the first completely new Scottish university since the University of Edinburgh was founded in 1582. The University of Stirling opened in 1967. Their campus is set in 24 hectares of light forest, 120 hectares of intensely landscaped parkland with a lake with a variety of wildlife - and includes Airthrey Castle, where the law school and the student radio station, Air3 Radio , are housed. Airthrey Castle has many original details and houses the university's moot courtroom . Since September 2014, the international study center of the university has been located in the castle, which is operated in cooperation with INTO University Partnerships .
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Airthrey Castle from the northwest
Airthrey Castle at the east end of the university campus
Airthrey Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Airthrey Castle . Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ A b DSA Building / Design Report: Airthrey Castle . Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ^ Law and Philosophy . University of Stirling. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
- ↑ Where it all begins . INTO / University of Sterling. Retrieved January 24, 2017.
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Coordinates: 56 ° 8 ′ 53.5 " N , 3 ° 54 ′ 48.5" W.