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    Innerpeffray Library was the first lending library in Scotland. It is located in the hamlet of Innerpeffray, by the River Earn in Perth and Kinross, 4...
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    the River Earn. Innerpeffray Library is a historic subscription library and was the first lending library in Scotland. The current library building was completed...
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    such as Chetham's Library in 1653, Innerpeffray Library in 1680 and Thomas Plume's Library in 1704. In the American colonies, the Library Company of Philadelphia...
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  • at the command of Cormac Ó Neill. Innerpeffray Library, the oldest known (and surviving) public (lending) library in Scotland, is established. John Bunyan...
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    such as Chetham's Library in 1653, Innerpeffray Library in 1680 and Thomas Plume's Library in 1704. In the American colonies, the Library Company of Philadelphia...
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    and Glenturret Distillery. The nearby Innerpeffray Library (founded about 1680) is Scotland's oldest lending library. St Mary's Chapel beside it dates from...
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  • Lanthorn Library Linlithgow Library Pumpherston Library West Calder Library Whitburn Library Advocates Library, Edinburgh Innerpeffray Library Glasgow...
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  • building. It welcomes the inclusion of unexpected sites such as Innerpeffray Library, Mavisbank House, the Italian Chapel and Sullom Voe, and particularly...
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    monument. Scheduled monuments in Perth and Kinross Innerpeffray Chapel And Free Library – Canmore Innerpeffray Collegiate Church – Historic Environment Scotland...
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  • library, a farmer's widow and a visiting Kenyan librarian bond unexpectedly over a shared love of books. Recorded on location at Innerpeffray Library...
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  • barony of Innerpeffray, 24 March 1618. Drummond died in September 1623. He is Buried in Innerpeffray Chapel attaching the rear of Innerpeffray Library. He married...
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    History Catalogue Archived 18 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine Innerpeffray Library National Archives: Online Document PROB 11/1016  This article incorporates...
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  • 23502 Upload Photo Innerpeffray Library 56°20′41″N 3°46′42″W / 56.344692°N 3.778278°W / 56.344692; -3.778278 (Innerpeffray Library) Category A 5792...
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    Sir John Drummond 2nd of Innerpeffray (c. 1486 – 1560) was Forester of Strathearn, and tutor to David Lord Drummond during his minority, and lived at the...
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  • executed in Edinburgh for murder. Innerpeffray Library, the oldest known (and surviving) public (lending) library in Scotland, is established. Last definitely...
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    Scotland. "Monzie Castle: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. "Innerpeffray Library: Listed Building Report". Historic Scotland. "Montrose Mausoleum...
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    made from the same tree was donated to the club by Sir William. The Innerpeffray Library holds a copy of the 'Kilmarnock Edition' which had once belonged...
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    10 December 1776), known later as Robert Hay-Drummond of Cromlix and Innerpeffray, was successively Bishop of St Asaph, Bishop of Salisbury, and, from...
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    John Knox. In June 1565, Mary stayed at Perth, at Ruthven Castle, and Innerpeffray Castle. It was said the Earl of Moray and the Earl of Argyll plotted...
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    the Clan proscribed. In 1610 James Drummond, 1st Lord Madderty built Innerpeffray Castle. James Drummond, descendant of John, Margaret's father, became...
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  • 1800 he married Mary Alison, daughter of Charles Alison, a farmer at Innerpeffray. Their children included: Jane (1802-1874) Margaret (1804-1893) married...
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    Stewart married John Gordon, Lord Gordon and then Sir John Drummond of Innerpeffray. Ellen More was given 40 shillings in July 1527, recorded as a payment...
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    The yellow frigate: or, The three sisters. University of California Libraries. London; New York: G. Routledge. Nield (1968), p. 67; Megan McEachern...
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    Argyll, subsequently obtained land holdings around Strageath, Muthill and Innerpeffray. Over the years oral history has placed the number of dead Murrays as...
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    Elphinstone were put in the hands of Lord Erskine, John Drummond of Innerpeffray, and Robert Drummond of Carnock. He was knighted as a supporter of Henry...
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  • to reinvigorate the priory. To this end, her brother Robert Leslie of Innerpeffray, devised various ways to help the monastery recover financially, including...
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    Melville's life and work: 3 April 2004 in Culross Abbey, and 26 June 2005 in Innerpeffray Collegiate Kirk. In 2010, Melville's songs were included in three concerts...
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