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3 unusual facts about Auchengray


Auchengray

It has a small church whose architect was Frederick Thomas Pilkington (1832-98), the ground given by George Robertson Chaplin (proprietor) of Colliston House, Arbroath, the uncle of David Souter Robertson of Lawhead House nearby, and Murlingden House.

The church has two stained glass rose windows, one of which has a spelling error in "Haleluya," though correctly spelled in the original transliteration of the Hebrew הללויה.

South Lanarkshire by-election, 1913

He was born in the constituency in the village of Auchengray where his father owned a farm.



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