Identifier: redwhitebookofme00menz (find matches)
Title: The "Red and white" book of Menzies...
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Menzies, David Prentice, 1851-
Subjects: Menzies clan
Publisher: Plean, Stirlingshire : Menzies
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
cart, then drove them to the nearest public road, where the cart was tilted up and they were thrown out on the top of each
other, and left sprawling, it being the public road they had a right-of-way to.
The Chief loved Rannoch, and used to say that when he wanted a refresher he always went to Rannoch Lodge, where,
being the guest of Sir Robert, in July, 1893, he entertained me in a fatherly, homely manner. There he always took porridge
for breakfast, often with a horn spoon and wooden cog ; and he used to stand at the window supping his porridge, looking
out on Loch Rannoch, and chatting away to me at the same time. Perfectly regardless of wind and rain, I have seen him
come in dripping, after rowing across Loch Rannoch, in the midst of a deluge of rain and storm, on a black night, and face
the pelting, drenching showers on the braes of Rannoch, as if the sun was shining. He often camped out at Corrayvarkie,
when his bed was made up of heather, covered with a Menzies Tartan Plaid spread out under a tent.
Text Appearing After Image:
Chief Sir Robert the Menzies, 61st in Descent, 24TH Baron of that Ilk,
AND 7TH Baronet of Menzies.
BORN 26th Sept. 1817.
From the Presentation Portrait Painted by Sir George Reid, P.R.S.A.

A.D. 1844.] THE SEVENTH BARONET OFCLAN MENZIES. 433
much admired by royalty, and commented upon by many writers when describing
the royal visit. On leaving college, the young chief became a captain in the Perthshire
Highland Rifle Militia of the Black Watch.
There are many instances of Sir Robert the Menzies endurance in walking
fast, and also long distances. On one occasion, finding all the seats taken i
the Aberfeldy coach at Perth, there being no room for him, the young chief set
off walking across the hills, which is only a few miles shorter than by the road,
and arrived at Aberfeldy before the horses were taken out of the coach. He has
often walked from Castle Menzies to Rannoch Lodge in six hours, the distance
(by road) being almost 30 miles. As a rule Sir Robert prefers to walk, although
his

Note About Images