The Skaggs-Files

1ST EARL OF STRATHMORE

3RD EARL OF KINGHORNE

Patrick inherited massive debt, but through determined hard work managed to restore the family to solvency. He also made improvements to Glamis Castle. In fact, his diary indicates he may have been involved in its architectural design.

Patrick was the last noble in Scotland to keep a Jester, whose motley is on display in Glamis Castle today. Unfortunately, the man had to be let go when he made an inappropriate proposal of marriage to the Lord’s daughter.

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When he came into his inheritance he found his estates burdened with debts amounting to Ð40,000 - an absolutely massive sum in those days. He was advised that his estates were 'irrecoverable,' but after 40 years hard work and determination he restored his inheritance to solvency. Patrick obtained a new charter to his patent of peerage in 1677 and was afterwards known as "The Earl of Stradlmore and Kinghorne" as have been his successors ever since. It says much for this young man that he managed not only to pay off his debts by strict economies, but also was later able to rebuild and improve Glamis Castle to very much its appearance today. This can be seen by examining the distant view of the building in the huge family painting of Stradlmore and his sons in the Drawing Room. Lord Stradlmore remodeled the Castle. He added the west wing in 1679, giving a false symmetry. He swept away the courtyard buildings, laid out the main avenue at 45 degrees to the Castle so that the large stair became the center of the composition. In front he created a baroque setting of courts, sculptures and vistas. The interiors were equally rich. He built and decorated the Chapel and adapted the old Great Hall of the Castle, which had already been made elegant with plasterwork in1621, into a fine Drawing Room which turned out to be his favorite partof the Castle and described in the diary as 'My Great Hall, which is a room that I ever loved'. He also kept a 'private buffoon' or jester and was the last nobleman to do so in Scotland. This jester's motley is still preserved in the Castle and can be seen in the Drawing Room, and a small copy of it, worn by the Queen Mother's brother when a boy at a fancy dress party, can be seen in the Family Exhibition Room. The jester himself, it is recorded, was dismissed for proposing to a young daughterof the house! (Internet)

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!#21> Complete Peerage-v1-p54,72,-v7-p279*,314,-v8-p304, -v12pt1-p324,395/6*,590,637, (FHL 942 D22cok); #189> Scots Peerage-v1-p103,127,-v8-p299-303*, (FHL 941 D22p); !KIN> only s & h by 2nd wife; TITLE> & Viscount Lyon, Baron Glamis,Tannadyce,Sidlaw,& Stradichtie; <TITLE> Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne; ^MARR: L1> (contract) Holyroodhouse;

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?? Line 26840: (New PAF RIN=1650) 1 TITL [EarlofStrathmore] ?? Line 26868: (New PAF MRIN=867) 1 MARR 2 DATE Cont. 23 Aug 1662 ?? Line 26869: (New PAF MRIN=867) 1 MARR 2 PLAC Abbey Of Holyroadhouse, Scotland ?? Line 26870: (New PAF MRIN=867) 1 SLGS 16 Jan'46

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