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From: "Teresa Kincaid" <>
Subject: Re: [KINCAID] Lennox Castle
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:22:43 -0400
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Loved your pix of Lennox Castle, Dick! I especially liked the coat of arms
above the door. Can someone out there tell me the correct way to arrange an
impaled coat of arms? I have a blank crest embossed in the plaster above
our fireplace, that is divided into four sections. Would I paint the two
stars above the castle for Kincaid on the left side and my three stags heads
for Hannay on the right? Or should I, like at the Lennox Castle, arrange
them in quarter sections?

Teresa K.
17719

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From: "Dick Kinkeade" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 5:40 AM
Subject: RE: [KINCAID] Lennox Castle


> Here are some pictures I took of Lennox castle in Jan 04. I walked up from
> the road.
> Dick K (MN)
>
> http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i56/keokuk44/
>
>
> Lennox Castle was at one time the most striking building within the Parish
> of
> Campsie. While the name bears honour to the ancient Earls of Lennox and
> a principal landowner in the area, the Lennoxes of Woodhead, the castle
> itself
> was built by the Kincaids of that Ilk. It was John Lennox Kincaid who was
> the builder of this massive family monument.
>
> John Lennox Kincaid was born on 8 October 1802, to John Kincaid of Kincaid
> and Cecilia Lennox, daughter of William Lennox of Woodhead. John's father
> was
> a Justice of the Peace and one of the original partners of Carrick Brown &
> Co.
> (Ship Bank) which merged with the Glasgow Bank to become Glasgow and Ship
> Bank
> in 1836. Cecilia Lennox died in 1817 and her son John Lennox Kincaid
> became
> heir to her half interest in the large Lennox of Woodhead estates.
>
> The other half interest was held by Cecilia's Lennox's elder unmarried
> sister,
> Margaret Lennox of Woodhead, who was in effect the last of the direct line
> of
> the Lennoxes of Woodhead. She was convinced that she was the legitimate
> heir
> to the rights and honours of the ancient Earls of Lennox which for the
> most
> part
> fell out of use with the execution of the Earl of Lennox with the Duke of
> Albany,
> Regent of Scotland, in 1425. To press her case she hired the prominent
> lawyer
> Robert Hamilton of Gilkerscleugh who, in 1813, prepared and published her
> claim
> in a impressive paper titled "The Case of Margaret Lennox of Woodhead, in
> relation to the Title, Honours, and Dignity of the ancient Earls of
> Levenax
> or
> Lennox." She was not able to establish her claim and when she died in
> 1831
> her nephew, John Lennox Kincaid, became heir to her half interest and thus
> now had full rights and possession of the Lennox of Woodhead estates. He
> thus assumed the surname Lennox when he was served heir to her in 1833.
> His
> father, John Kincaid of Kincaid, passed away in 1832 and John Lennox
> Kincaid,
> now John Lennox Kincaid-Lennox, found himself with a considerable wealth
> in
> money and property.
>
> John Lennox Kincaid-Lennox married Frances Maxwell of Craigends on 26
> August
> 1828 and ultimately became a brother-in-law to the Duke of Argyll. Bent
> on
> continuing
> his aunt Margaret's claim to the ancient earldom of Lennox he decided to
> build a
> residence befitting the dignity of an Earl. He thus commissioned
> Scotland's
>
> eminent
> architect, David Hamilton, to develop plans for a large addition to
> Woodhead
>
> House.
> However, the location was unsuitable and it was decided that a new castle
> was to
> be built on a more visible location in the valley. This new castle was to
> be built in the
> Norman style in recognition of the ancestors of the Earls of Lennox coming
> to
> the district in the Norman period. Construction began in 1837 and took
> two
> years
> to complete. In addition to income from his estate, funding for the
> building of the
> Castle came from the sale of the stocks he had inherited in the Glasgow
> and
> Ship bank. Although he became possessed of a castle befitting a Scottish
> Earl his case
> to be recognized as heir to the rights and dignity of the ancient Earls of
> Lennox had
> to be abandoned.
>
> John Lennox Kincaid-Lennox was appointed a Deputy-Lieutenant of
> Stirlingshire
> and Dumbartonshire in 1832. He also became Convenor of the County of
> Stirlingshire
> in 1842. He died in London suddenly on 6 March 1859. He was predeceased
> by a son John Kincaid Lennox, a Captain in the 12th Lancers, who died
> in Thebes, Egypt after contracting a lung disease during the Caffre War.
> Thus,
> on his death his eldest daughter, Margaret Cunningham Lennox, became 2nd
> of
> Lennox Castle. She married in 1857, George Augustus Frederick Percy
> Smythe,
> 7th Visount Strangford. She became Viscountess Strangford but her husband
> passed away shortly after their marriage. In 1861, she married Hon.
> Charles
> Spencer Bateman Hanbury, second son of William, Lord Bateman and resumed,
> with her new husband, her family name of Kincaid-Lennox.
>
> Margaret did not have any children and upon her death in 1892, her younger
> sister Cecilia Kincaid-Lennox became her heir. On the death of Margaret's
> second husband in 1912, Cecilia came into full possession of Lennox Castle
> and other family estates. In 1856, Cecilia had married Captain William
> Peareth
> of the 12th Royal Lancers; he having served with her brother. He was heir
> to
> Usworth House, County Durham and of Thorpe Mandeville in County
> Northampton.
> He died in 1870. Cecilia Peareth-Lennox of Lennox Castle and Kincaid
> died on 21 April 1914.
>
> Cecilia's eldest son, William George Peareth, having inherited his
> father's
> estates in 1870 also inherited Lennox Castle and Kincaid upon the death of
> his
> mother and he too assumed the name Kincaid-Lennox. He rented Lennox
> Castle out at various times and during World War I it was used as a
> hospital. William G. P. Kincaid-Lennox in his lifetime did have an
> interest
> in local affairs having become a Justice of the Peace for Stirlingshire
> and
> a
> Deputy-Lieutenant for the same County. However, he took a keener interest
> in
> horseracing and was once the proud owner of the Grand National winner,
> Glenside,
> and the Cambridgeshire winner Twelve Pointer.
>
> Debts caught up to him and as a result he was oblidged to sell many of the
> family assests. Lennox Castle, together with other family building
> assests
> in
> the area and 8650 acres of land, were put up for auction in February 1927.
> By
> August of that year Lennox Castle and 3000 acres were sold with the prized
> building being bought by the Glasgow Corporation. Part of the estate was
> developed as a hospital for the mentally handicaped and Castle itself was
> converted into a Nurse's Home.
>
>
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