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Old Photographs Methven Perthshire Scotland

Tour Scotland wee video of old photographs of Methven, Scottish Gaelic: Meadhainnigh, a large village in the Scottish region of Perthshire. The Battle of Methven took place in 1306 between Scottish forces led by King Robert the Bruce and English forces led by Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke and resulted in a resounding win for the English. This was part of the Scottish Wars of Independence. Methven is the birthplace of the Reverend Dr Robert Stirling, inventor of the Stirling engine.Kildrummie was the fictional name given to Methven Railway station by the one time minister of the Free Church of Scotland, The Reverend John Watson, who wrote under the pseudonym of Ian MacLaren. He was for a number of years Minister at Logiealmond. Kildrummie along with other fictional names was used by MacLaren in his book, Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush. Dr William Marshall was born on 26 th of August, 1834, in Methven was appointed Queen Victoria's resident doctor at Balmoral in 1871. He was a royal physician until 1881. He died in Crieff on 22 Dec 1884. Methven Castle was the home of Margaret Tudor, born 1489, died 1541, queen of James IV, King of Scots, and daughter of Henry VII of England, after her third marriage to Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven in 1528. Margaret Tudor died here on 18 October 1541. After the third Lord Methven died without heir in 1584, King James VI gave Methven to his favourite, the Duke of Lennox. In 1664 the estate was purchased by Patrick Smythe of Braco.