Drumtochty Forest is a coniferous woodland in Kincardineshire , Scotland . In earlier times this forest was associated with Drumtochty Castle . Other notable buildings in this part of the Mearns include Fasque House , Fetteresso Castle , and Muchalls Castle .
7-520: Ian Maclaren mentions Drumtochty Forest in his bestseller book of stories " Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush ", a collection of tales of Rural Scotland, which shone light on the Scottish way of life. Drumtochty forest comprises a distance of 1.5 miles which takes an estimated 1 hour to travel across it. It will be recommended for hikers to carry a map to navigate through the forest due to no way markings in
14-573: A civil servant, he was born in Manningtree , Essex , and educated at Stirling . His paternal uncle Rev Hiram Watson (1813-1891) was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and John appears to have chosen to follow in his shoes. He studied at Edinburgh University , then trained as a Free Church minister at New College in Edinburgh , also undertaking some postgraduate study at Tübingen . In 1874 he
21-463: Is regarded as one of the principal writers of the Kailyard school . It is thought that Maclaren was the original source of the quotation "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle," now widely misattributed to Plato or Philo of Alexandria . The oldest known instance of this quotation is in the 1897 Christmas edition of The British Weekly , penned by Maclaren: "Be pitiful, for every man
28-501: The Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity, selling more than 700,000 copies, and was succeeded by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896), and Afterwards and other Stories (1898). By his own name Watson published several volumes of sermons , among them being The Upper Room (1895), The Mind of the Master (1896) and The Potter's Wheel (1897). Today he
35-524: The forest. 56°55′30″N 2°30′11″W / 56.924955°N 2.503172°W / 56.924955; -2.503172 This article related to Aberdeenshire , Scotland , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ian Maclaren John Watson (3 November 1850 – 6 May 1907), was a minister of the Free Church of Scotland . He is remembered as an author of fiction, known by his pen name Ian Maclaren . The son of John Watson,
42-853: Was a main mover in the founding of the Westminster College in Cambridge . In 1896 he was Lyman Beecher lecturer at Yale University , and in 1900 he was moderator of the synod of the English Presbyterian Church . While travelling in the United States he died from blood poisoning , following a bout with tonsilitis , at Mount Pleasant , Iowa . His body was returned to England, and buried in Smithdown Cemetery in Liverpool. Maclaren's first stories of rural Scottish life , Beside
49-577: Was licensed by the Free Church of Scotland and became assistant minister of Edinburgh Barclay Church . In 1875 he was ordained as minister at Logiealmond in Perthshire . In 1877 he was transferred to St Matthews Free Church in Glasgow . In Glasgow he lived at 44 Windsor Terrace. In 1880 he became minister of Sefton Park Presbyterian Church in Liverpool , from which he retired in 1905. During this period he
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