_{Dr. Sir Stuart Threipland, of Fingask (1716-1805). The Bonnie Prince's physician during the Rebellion, and President of the Royal Medical Society (1766-1770)}

Fingask Castle, Perthshire. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (3456 × 2304 pixel, file size: 3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 533 pixelsFull resolution (3456 × 2304 pixel, file size: 3. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

a jewel in the bosom of a glen, (anon. referring to Fingask)

Perched above Rait, posed 200 feet up overlooking the Firth of Tay, in the Braes of the Carse of Gowrie, on the fringes of the Sidlaw Hills lies Fingask. Fingask was once an explicitly Holy place, a convenient and numinous stop off between the abbeys at Falkirk and Scone. In the eighteenth century it was a nest of Jacobites. Today, though still riddled with shrines, it is best known for its garden and parties. The Firth of Tay is a firth in Scotland between the regions of Fife and City of Dundee into to which Scotlands largest river in terms of flow, the River Tay empties. ... Gowrie (Scottish Gaelic: Gobharaidh) otherwise the Carse of Gowrie consists of a stretch of low-lying country in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, stretching for about 24km along the north shore of the Firth of Tay between Perth and Dundee. ... Sidlaw Hills are a range of hills correctly known as The Sidlaws due to Law being a Scots word meaning hill. ... Falkirk (An Eaglais Bhreac in Scottish Gaelic) is a town in central Scotland lying to the north west and north east of the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, respectively. ... Scone Palace. ... This article is not about the Jacobite Orthodox Church, nor is it about Jacobinism or the earlier Jacobean period. ... Eastern Orthodox shrine Buddhist shrine just outside Wat Phnom. ...

Fingask is also home to the Fingask Follies, an annual musical event that takes place in late May and early June. The garden also features The Pavilion, a picturesque venue for things such as colloquia and wedding parties. Elsewhere in the demesne there's a magic peep show of statues of the likes of Willie Brew’d a Peck o’ Maut, And Rab and Allan cam’ tae Pree; the naked black figure of Dollyphorous; Tam O' Shanter and Kate; Scott's Last Minstrel/Ossian; William Pitt the Younger and Thomson's Meg and Watty. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The feudal concept of demesne is a form of manorial land tenure as conceived in Western Europe, initially in France but exported to England, during the Middle Ages. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Tam o Shanter This article is about the poem by Robert Burns. ... The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) is a long narrative poem by Walter Scott. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Oisín. ... William Pitt the Younger (28 May 1759 – 23 January 1806) was a British politician of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. ...

_{Wilson's Meg with a local baronet's Rolls behind, 22 May 2004}

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THE FINGASK FOLLIES

_{Abbott's sketch of Fingask, Feb. 2007}

_{Party Palace: The Fingask Pavilion, 24 February 2007}

_{Castle in 2006 : Home to the cream of Broadway}

_{Fingask Tea by Mungo McCosh, 2006}

_{Hyperreal-Feeling-Flowing, Fingask, 24 February 2007. Ascending - rising - harmonising}

A May 2006 birthday card (Fingask behind), by Mungo McCosh

('Glyndebourne of the Carse') Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 561 pixelsFull resolution (1618 × 1134 pixel, file size: 154 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) source the artist, Steve Abbott, and the sitter, February 23, 2007Rodolph 19:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 561 pixelsFull resolution (1618 × 1134 pixel, file size: 154 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) source the artist, Steve Abbott, and the sitter, February 23, 2007Rodolph 19:35, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify... Image File history File linksMetadata LitUp. ... Image File history File linksMetadata LitUp. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 429 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1251 × 1749 pixel, file size: 163 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of work by Mungo McCosh, August2006Rodolph 19:44, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 429 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1251 × 1749 pixel, file size: 163 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of work by Mungo McCosh, August2006Rodolph 19:44, 1 March 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 517 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 1160 pixel, file size: 773 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) photo by Mr. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 517 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 1160 pixel, file size: 773 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) photo by Mr. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 366 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (810 × 1326 pixel, file size: 104 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of origianl birthday card by Mungo McCosh, May 2006, Rodolph 18:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 366 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (810 × 1326 pixel, file size: 104 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of origianl birthday card by Mungo McCosh, May 2006, Rodolph 18:18, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify... Glyndebourne Festival Opera is a opera festival held at Glyndebourne House near Lewes, in southern England. ...

When the King cam to Fingask

To see Sir David and his Lady,

A cod’s head weel made wi’ sauce

Took a hunder pund to mak’ it ready.

The above lines describe the Old Pretender’s stay with Sir David Threipland at Fingask on the night of January 7th 1716. These days the ‘King’ is represented by the hundreds who come along every May to mull not cod but the inspired whims and tunes of the likes of Sondheim, Mozart, Ovid, Auden, Larkin, Lehar, Lehrer, Porter, Gilbert and Sullivan, Pigalle, Bernstein, Novello, Wagner, Weill, Wortley, and Coward. The Follies was conceived over a decade ago during the bachelor days of Fingask’s resident maestro Andrew Threipland. Earlier Threiplands spent their winters revolting against London (and Edinburgh) or curling. The present incumbent, an economist and sometime Pembrokeshire dairy farmer and cheesemaker, finding neither the courage to revolt nor gaming skill set about rather to churn tunes and fill his house and topiary garden with laughter, neighbours and friends on at least a few of the long summer evenings. The show comprises two acts of 35 minutes with an hour break for supper. It is made up of a carefully spliced mish-mash of show tunes, a melange of bien pensés and a pic-nic of parody. Part tutorial, part vacation, it is a synthesis of theatrical rigour, a plethora of fecund and frivolous, of song, poetry, satire, action and prose. Threipland’s aim is for everyone to leave ‘humming an old tune, and thinking a new thought’. This May 2007 sees the twelveth Follies’ season in their twelveth year. Starting with Ossian in July 1996, they have progressed through: Moonstruck; Love all (Tennis, Eros & Agape); My Fair Lady?; The Framing of the Shrew; Spondulics Galore!; Brief’s Galore; The Fouler Sex; Genes Galore; Facts & Fallacies; Crumpet!; to this year's Having a Good Time. In ten years the Follies have grown beyond their original three-night run at their Tayside home at Fingask and have gradually spread their wings to reach this year’s total of 14 shows: eight nights at Fingask and a tour taking in venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Ayrshire, Rosshire, the Borders, Norfolk, and London. Free of state aid the Follies are registered as Scotch charity number 32229.
James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender Prince James Francis Edward Stuart or Stewart (June 10, 1688 – January 1, 1766) was a claimant of the thrones of Scotland and England (September 16, 1701 – January 1, 1766) and is commonly referred to as The Old Pretender. ...

Subscription Mural

Mural Key, 2007

_{Follies Mural, work in process, spring 2007}

The castle is home to an accretive mural by Ivan Govorkov and Lena Gubanova of St. Petersburg. The five year old wall painting is added to each spring and now has already nearly 60 objects, including 35 portraits. The painting features portraits of Sir James Cayzer, Bt; Vicky Jardine Patterson; Claire Enders; Heloise Thomson; Chic Murray; and Lofty Buchanan. Inspired by R. H. van Rijn's great seventeenth subscription portraits (viz. the Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp and the The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq) and then by the British eighteenth and nineteenth century continuation of the tradition, where good institutions would use such things as a means to raise money. This one is thought to be the only active subscription portrait in existence.

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		Fingask Curling Pond from the Illustrated London News, January 7, 1854 Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 1200 pixel, file size: 142 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of C19th photo of Fingask Castle, pre-1920s removal/re-modelling. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1500 × 1200 pixel, file size: 134 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of C19th photo of Wilsons Meg and friend at Fingask, in a position since changedRodolph 22:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 573 pixelsFull resolution (1449 × 1037 pixel, file size: 218 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of page from London Illustrated News,Rodolph 18:35, 12 May 2007 (UTC) This image is in the public domain in the United States. ... Curling is a team sport with similarities to bowls and bocce, played on a rectangular sheet of carefully prepared ice by two teams of four players each. ... The Illustrated London News was a magazine founded by Herbert Ingram and his friend Mark Lemon, the editor of Punch magazine. ...	Sir Stuart Threipland's medical case, as used during and after Culloden (18 April 1746) Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ...
Salis's Pavilion Collage, June 2007 Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 581 pixelsFull resolution (1755 × 1275 pixel, file size: 482 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Collage by R. de Salis, June 2006, Rodolph 18:09, 12 May 2007 (UTC) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under...	Monumental Royal Coat of Arms in the Pavilion Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 724 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 828 pixel, file size: 762 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) from the owners, a photo: H. Molchanoff, March 2007. ...	Old Postcard of Fingask pre.1920 Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 503 pixelsFull resolution (804 × 506 pixel, file size: 47 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) scan of postcard by R. de Salis, 2003Rodolph 19:51, 1 March 2007 (UTC) This image is in the public domain in the United States. ...	Castle with lost C19th embellishments Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...

References

• Robert Chambers, The Threiplands of Fingask. 1880.
• Country Life, July 18 1936.
• Christie's, Fingask Castle, Rait, by Perth, April 1993.
• David Chalmers, The Butler's Day Book 1849-1855, Everyday Life in a Scottish Castle, ed. Andrew Threipland, Perth, 1999.
• Country Life, October 10 2006.