Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and British Army officer. After his education at Oxford, he inherited a substantial estate in Scotland, married and settled down to a quiet career as a landowning gentleman. However, with the death of his wife, when he was aged 42, he immersed himself in a military career, during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Portrait of Thomas Graham from the frontispiece of his biography by Alexander M. Delavoye published in 1880
Thomas Graham, Baron Lynedoch by David Allan.
Bust of his wife, Mary.
The famous portrait of the beautiful Mrs. Graham wearing Jacobean inspired costume by Thomas Gainsborough, 1777.
Perthshire, officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland. Geographically it extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south; it borders the counties of Inverness-shire and Aberdeenshire to the north, Angus to the east, Fife, Kinross-shire, Clackmannanshire, Stirlingshire and Dunbartonshire to the south and Argyllshire to the west. It was a local government county from 1890 to 1930.
County Offices in York Place, the former headquarters of Perth County Council
The uncharacteristically flat lands of the Carse of Gowrie
Typical Perthshire scenery around Loch Garry
Ben Vorlich rising above Loch Lubnaig