Ardchattan estate
Ardchattan House
Ardchattan Estate Archive
established
Campbell of Ardchattan : sept of Campbell of Cawdor
North and West shores of Loch Etive From Ardachy to Barrs
Including hills of
and Bonawe Quarry?
HES history of Ardchattan estate1
During the turbulent 18th century the Campbells sided with the government against the Stuarts.
Thomas Campbell, the last male descendant, died in 1846 leaving the estate to his niece who enlarged the house in 1852 in Victorian Gothic style.
In 1878 the estate passed to her 12 year old cousin, Robert Clarke-Preston, a descendant of Sir Robert Preston of Valleyfield.
During the latter part of the 19th century the estate was let to several tenants including Mrs Popham and Sir John Lawes, Bt., a distinguished agriculturalist who improved the policies.
In 1904 Robert and his new wife took up residence at Ardchattan.
Mrs Clarke-Campbell-Preston began gardening; she created formal flowerbeds to the south of the house, and laid out long herbaceous borders.
In 1950 her son Colonel Robert Campbell-Preston married Angela Murray, widow of Lt Colonel Antony Murray, killed in action in Italy in April 1945, and daughter of 2nd Viscount Cowdray; together they formed a 'gardening' partnership, Colonel Campbell-Preston providing the plant knowledge and his wife the artistic skills to lay it out.
It is mostly their garden which can be seen today.
Mrs Campbell-Preston died in 1981 and the Colonel continued to care for and improve the garden to his death in 1996
1850s - ?? Popham had tenancy of Ardchattan estate
(TNA archives and Scotlandsplaces Ordnance survey place names)
The Carmichael-Watson Collection (Coll-97) Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1883 to 1887 Note about Popeham of Airdchattan discarding human remains, August 18832
Scotlandsplaces
Ardchattan house https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-01/92
https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-01/79
Dail https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-52/16
Craig https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-52/32
Ardchattan Priory https://scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/digital-volumes/ordnance-survey-name-books/argyll-os-name-books-1868-1878/argyll-volume-01/93
records of Ardchattan estate .. NAC
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