The baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of Scotland (1909)
Billings, R. W. (Robert William), 1813-1874, Wiston-Glyn, A. W · Edinburg ; T.N. Foulis · leaf 113
Duncan Forbes, the celebrated Lord President of the Court of Session, was Mary Innes, a daughter of the owner of this mansion. The name is of frequent occurrence in the feuds and other northern historical events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The head of the head of the family became… … EW things could perhaps show more emphatically the progresswhich a careful study of ecclesiastical architecture has made as alearned science, than the remarks which Dr. Johnson has leftus on Iona—remarks shewing an utter ignorance of a largebranch of knowledge now pervading the humblest…
Architecture · Church architecture
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