Duncan McNaught
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Duncan McNaught LL.D., J.P., was born in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire in 1845. He was the parochial school teacher at Kilmaurs in East Ayrshire from 1867 and served at the school for over fifty years, h
Duncan McNaught LL.D., J.P.
The monument to the 7th Earl of Glencairn, his countess and his children.
Lochside Farm
McNaught family memorial, Kilmaurs.
Glenriddell Manuscripts
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The Glenriddell Manuscripts is an extensive collection written in holograph by Robert Burns and an amanuensis of his letters, poems and a few songs in two volumes produced for his then friend Captain
Duncan McNaught
…collector John Gribbel visited Duncan's house at Benrig, Kilmaurs who had been on the 'Scots Committee' that sought to take legal action to return the Glenriddell Manuscripts to Scotland, a task that became null and void when John Gribbel purchased them and gave them to the Scottish people. Duncan presided over the presentation…
Title page of the Glenriddell Manuscript. Volume 1
John Beugo engraving of Robert Burns.
Poetry by Miss Helena Craik of Arbigland that are part of the title page of Volume One.
Presentation autograph by John Gribbel