Identifier: redwhitebookofme00menz (find matches)
Title: The "Red and white" book of Menzies...
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Menzies, David Prentice, 1851-
Subjects: Menzies clan
Publisher: Plean, Stirlingshire : Menzies
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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1st Nov. 1810, before Sir Neil succeeded to the baronetcy. From this time he
remained single until the year i8i6, in which year he married the Hon. Grace
Charlotte Conyers Norton, 3rd Dec. 1816. She was the eldest daughter of Fletcher
Norton, Lord Grantley, Baron of Markenfield, and English Baron of the Court of
the Scottish Exchequer. There hangs in the old banqueting-hall of Castle
Menzies a full-length portrait of Sir Neil Menzies, painted by Sir John Watson
Gordon, P.K.S.A., R.A., Limner to Her Majesty, in which the chief is represented
having his little daughter at his right side, with a sporting dog on his other side,
and he appears in the ordinary garb of the period, not being able to wear the kilt
through a slight lameness got by a kick from a horse some years before, which
prevented him from wearing his usual garb, the Highland dress. There is also a
companion full-length portrait to this, by the same celebrated artist, of the Hon.
Lady Menzies in her marriage-dress, which consisted of a beautiful white material.
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Chief Sir Neil the Menzies, 60th in Descent, 23RD Baron,
AND THE 6th BARONET OF MENZIES.
From a Painting, at Castle Menzies, by Sir John Watson Gordon, P.R.S. A. and R.A.
A.D. 1816-1833.] THE SIXTH BARONET OF CLAN MENZIES. 419

with a large silk sash of the full-dress Menzies tartan, "Red and White", entwining
round her waist on to the left shoulder, from which it in graceful folds extends to
her left hand, over which it hangs, displaying the checks of the tartan and giving
brilliancy of colour to the picture.
About the year 1816 Sir Neil, following in the footsteps of his ancestors, laid
down over a large tract of his Highland moorland, plantations of young forests, and
further extended and completed the extensive plantations begun by his father Sir
Robert at Kinaclachair, where he expended a large sum of money in adding over
60 acres to these splendid plantations of Scotch fir, larch fir, oak, and ash trees.
About the year 1828 the parish church of Weem being left without a
minister, it was the duty of Sir Neil, as patron of that church and parish, to call and

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