Rossie Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland

Rossie Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland. Castellated mansion house built by privateer and slave-owner and later abolitionist Hercules Ross from a design by Richard Crichton in 1805. Home of Montagu William MacDonald, Grenadier Guards. Colour woodblock by Benjamin Fawcett in the Baxter process of an illustration by Alexander Francis Lydon from Reverend Francis Orpen Morris's A Series of Picturesque Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great Britain and Ireland, William Mackenzie, London, 1880

Abolitionist Alexander Francis Lydon Baxter Process Benjamin Fawcett Colour Woodblock Enslaved Forfarshire Jamaica Mansion House Pile Piracy Privateer Privilege Reverend Francis Orpen Morris Slave Trade Stately Home West Indies William Mackenzie

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