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Lady Helen Colquhoun

Lady Helen Sutherland 1717–1791 (born Helen Gordon), was the daughter of William Gordon Sutherland, Lord Strathnaver and Catherine Morrison. She was the granddaughter of the 16th Earl of Sutherland.  In April 1740 she married Sir James Colquhoun, 1st Baronet of Luss, with whom she had 8 children. Sir James Colquhoun had bought the land the […]

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The Hill House

The Hill House in Helensburgh is considered to be an architectural masterpiece. Commissioned by the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie and completed in 1904, both the exterior and interior of the house were designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, working with his wife Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and are an exemplar of the ‘Glasgow style‘. Unfortunately, the external

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