Montrose

Taken in the grounds of the Colzium Estate at Kilsyth.

In the foreground is a memorial to the Marquis of Montrose.

In 1645, James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, camped his army on the estate before going out to defeat General Baillie's covenanter army at the Battle of Kilsyth.

One of my favourite poets is William Topaz McGonagall. The following is the first para of a poem he wrote about Montrose who was eventually executed:-


'Twas in the year of 1650, and on the twenty-first of May,
The city of Edinburgh was put into a state of dismay
By the noise of drums and trumpets, which on the air arose,
That the great sound attracted the notice of Montrose.'