Round 100 individuals attended the launch of a e book in Gartmore final week in regards to the celebrated author and politician R B Cunninghame Graham who as soon as owned the encompassing property.
Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936) had based the Scottish Labour Occasion with Keir Hardie in 1888, and was later instrumental in founding The Nationwide Occasion of Scotland in 1928, a predecessor of the Scottish Nationwide Occasion.
The biography entitled ‘R B Cunninghame Graham and Scotland’ was written by Lachlan Munro, a former pupil of Denny Excessive College who additionally studied historical past and politics at Stirling College.
Amongst those that attended final Friday’s occasion, hosted by Gartmore Heritage Society within the village corridor, was Cunninghame Graham’s nice nice nephew Jamie Jauncey who lives in Perthshire.
Lachlan mentioned: “The night was compered by Jamie Jauncey. It was a multi-faceted occasion with a big show of photographs of Cunninghame Graham’s life, interspersed with readings by Ailsa Grey of Glassingall by Dunblane, poet Donald Saunders and actor Steve Calveley, each from Gartmore, and Professor Laurence Davies of Kings School, London.
“The occasion attracted guests from throughout Scotland and was seen stay by Cunninghame Graham followers in Argentina, Chile, and Spain.”
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Ancestors on either side of R B Cunninghame Graham’s household had been MPs for Stirling, and he stood unsuccessfully for the constituency in 1918.
Cunninghame Graham had inherited the 12,000-acre Gartmore Property in 1883 on the loss of life of his father, however bought it in 1900 to pay loss of life duties.
Throughout final week’s e book launch the viewers have been proven outdated images of Gartmore Home from Cunninghame Graham’s picture album which had been taken within the late nineteenth century.
Lachlan commented: “Of explicit curiosity to the big viewers have been dozens of ‘misplaced’ images of Gartmore Home and grounds, taken in 1898, which I had found whereas finishing up analysis at Dartmouth School, New Hampshire, which has a big archive of fabric on Cunninghame Graham.
“It was collected by his first biographer, Herbert Faulkner West, who attended that college. He clearly acquired maintain of Graham’s outdated picture album.
“The pictures have been taken in 1898, two years earlier than the home was bought. The album is the one hard-copy document in existence of how the home as soon as appeared, and there are ongoing discussions between myself and Paul Wilson of The Gartmore Heritage Society about replicating it, and preserving a replica in Gartmore, a replica in The Smith in Stirling, the place there's a Cunninghame Graham exhibition room, and a replica in The Nationwide Library of Scotland.”