

BALCARRES 



FIFE 



HE annals of the house of Lindsay 

 contain inexhaustible material for the 

 weaver of magazine literature ; yet 

 when Robert Chambers, some seventy 

 years ago, wrote for his Edinburgh 

 Journal a paper entitled "A Pilgrimage to Bal- 

 carres," he had but little to tell about the great 

 historic family to which that fine estate belongs. 

 For him Balcarres owed its chief attraction to 

 association with the memory of a very charming 

 and accomplished woman, Lady Anne Lindsay, 1 a 

 memory whereof, it must be admitted, the modern 

 architect and landscape gardener between them 

 have succeeded in obliterating most of the physical 

 landmarks. The old castle has been so completely 

 masked by recent additions, as to divest it, exter- 

 nally at least, of all venerable suggestion ; while the 

 grassy slopes where gentle Anne Lindsay tended 



Daughter of James, fifth Earl of Balcarres, and thirtieth Lord Lindsay of 

 Crawford. Lady Anne married Andrew Barnard and died in 1825. Her eldest 

 brother, great-grandfather of the present Earl of Crawford and Balcarres, 

 succeeded as twenty-third Earl of Crawford in addition to the other titles. 



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