26-568: Kenmure Castle is a fortified house or castle in The Glenkens , 1 mile (1.6 km) south of the town of New Galloway in Kirkcudbrightshire , Galloway, south-west Scotland. The site was occupied from the Middle Ages, and the house incorporates part of a 17th-century castle. This was remodelled in the 19th century, but the house has been derelict since the mid-20th century. It was the seat of
52-477: A courtyard, with the north and east sides formed by a high wall. The entrance gate in the north wall was flanked by towers at the two northern corners. The 6th Viscount took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715 and was subsequently beheaded and his estates forfeit. Some accounts state that his body was returned to his family at Kenmure for burial. By 1790 Kenmure Castle was described as a ruin. The viscountcy
78-477: A general policy to make red the national military colour. In 1840 it was ordered that Light Cavalry should revert to the blue uniforms formerly worn. Sir John Vandeleur petitioned that the regiment might be permitted to retain their scarlet coatee and on 2 March 1841, his request was granted. The scarlet uniform was worn by the regiment during the First Sikh War and on their return to England in 1846, they remained
104-556: A possible birthplace in 1249 of John Balliol , later King of Scotland, whose mother Dervorguilla was daughter of Alan , the last independent Lord of Galloway. It later belonged to the Douglas and Maxwell families. Kenmure became a property of the Gordon family from 1297, when they arrived from Berwickshire. The Gordons also built a castle on an island in Lochinvar , some 6 miles (9.7 km) to
130-708: Is located midway along the western section of the Southern Upland way in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Galloway , Scotland . The Glenkens is made up of the parishes of Carsphairn , Dalry , Kells , Parton and Balmaclellan . The name comes from the River Ken which runs through the valley before flowing into the River Dee and then down to the sea. 16th The Queen%27s Lancers Field Marshal William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt The 16th The Queen's Lancers
156-759: The 16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons (Lancers) . It returned from Ireland in June 1819. The regiment was sent to India in 1822 and saw action, using lances , against the Marathas at the siege of Bharatpur in January 1826. It saw action again at the capture of Ghuznee in July 1839 during the First Anglo-Afghan War and at the Battle of Maharajpore in December 1843 during
182-471: The 5th Royal Irish Lancers to form the 16th/5th Lancers ) in 1922. The regimental collection is held at The Royal Lancers and Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Museum which is based at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire . The collar badge of the regiment comprised the figure 16 above a scroll inscribed "Queen's Lancers", over a pair of crossed lances and surmounted by a crown. The lancer full dress cap bore
208-798: The American Revolutionary War . It was involved in fighting at the Battle of White Plains in October 1776, the Battle of Brandywine in September 1777 and the Battle of Germantown in October 1777 before seeing more action at the Battle of Crooked Billet in May 1778, the Battle of Barren Hill later that month and the Battle of Monmouth in June 1778. The regiment returned to England in spring 1779. The regiment next landed at Ostend in April 1793 for service in
234-691: The Battle of Salamanca in July 1812, the siege of Burgos in September 1812 and the Battle of Vitoria in June 1813. It was next in action at the siege of San Sebastián in August 1813 and having advanced into France, at the Battle of Nivelle in November 1813 and at the Battle of the Nive in December 1813. It returned home in July 1814. The regiment took part in the Hundred Days landing at Ostend in May 1815. It charged with John Vandeleur 's Cavalry Brigade at
260-600: The Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. After the battle, their commander, Lieutenant-colonel James Hay , lay so badly injured that he could not be moved from the field for eight days. The regiment had been the sole British cavalry regiment to serve throughout the Peninsular War and at the Hundred Days. The regiment was dispatched to Ireland in March 1816 where it was re-designated as a lancer regiment in September 1816, becoming
286-667: The Flanders Campaign and was present at the siege of Valenciennes in June 1793, the siege of Dunkirk in August 1793 and the siege of Landrecies in April 1794. It also took part in the Battle of Beaumont in April 1794, the Battle of Willems in May 1794 and the Battle of Tournay in later that month before returning to England in February 1796. The regiment was then based in Ireland between autumn 1802 and 1805. The regiment were ordered to support Sir Arthur Wellesley 's Army on
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#1733094000202312-642: The Gwalior campaign . It also took part in the Battle of Aliwal in January 1846, when the regiment charged and dispersed a body of Sikhs ten times its size, and also fought at the Battle of Sobraon in February 1846 during the First Anglo-Sikh War . The regiment's title was simplified to the 16th (The Queen's) Lancers in 1861. It served in India between 1865 and 1876 and again between 1890 and 1899. The regiment landed at Cape Colony in January 1900 for service in
338-514: The Iberian Peninsula and landed at Lisbon in April 1809. The regiment fought at the Second Battle of Porto in May 1809, the Battle of Talavera in July 1809 and the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo in April 1810. The regiment also saw action at the Battle of Bussaco in September 1810 the Battle of Sabugal in April 1811 and the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in May 1811. It next fought at
364-618: The Second Boer War and took part in the relief of Kimberley in February 1900. The regiment, which had been based at The Curragh at the start of the First World War , landed in France as part of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade in the 1st Cavalry Division in August 1914 for service on the Western Front . The regiment was retitled as the 16th The Queen's Lancers in 1921 and amalgamated with
390-472: The 1840s, and Hugh Maclure in the 1860s. In 1879 the Sheffield-based architect Matthew Ellison Hadfield was employed to remodel the west range. Further extensions were made in 1908 by the architect Christian Elliot. In 1923, the estate was sold but the castle itself was let to and later bought by Brigadier-General Maurice Lilburn MacEwen CB, late 16th The Queen's Lancers . He was battalion commander of
416-417: The Gordon family of Lochinvar , later raised to the peerage as Viscounts of Kenmure . The ruin is a scheduled monument . The present castle stands on a partly natural mound, which may have been modified for defence in the early Middle Ages . The Lords of Galloway , rulers of a semi-independent kingdom in south-west Scotland until the 13th century, may have had a fortress here. Kenmure has been suggested as
442-534: The Stewartry Home Guard. He died in 1943 at Kenmure Castle and is buried in Kells Churchyard. From about the late 1940s to 1957 it operated as an hotel run by Stanley Dobson, (brother of David Cowan Dobson ),and his business partner Hugh Ormond Sparks. Around 1958 the building's interior fixtures and fittings were stripped out and the roof removed. The ruins were bought in 1962 by Graeme Gordon. The castle
468-470: The furnishings in Kenmure Castle on 3 December 1604. Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar was created a baronet in 1626, and in 1633 his son Sir John Gordon was created Viscount of Kenmure by Charles I in 1633. The core of the present building is the castle which was largely erected in the 17th century, though possibly including earlier building work. The castle was laid out on the west and south sides of
494-425: The north. James IV of Scotland came to Kenmure in March 1508 following a pilgrimage to Whithorn . The king played "tables", a form of backgammon, when he stayed and gave money to the laird's servants. The early castle at Kenmure belonging to Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar , who welcomed Mary, Queen of Scots on 13 and 14 August 1563 as she travelled from Clary to St Mary's Isle . Kenmure was destroyed or damaged by
520-400: The opponents of Mary, Queen of Scots, who marched through the south-west in June 1568 after they defeated her supporters at the Battle of Langside . While Regent Moray was at Kenmure, he met an English envoy Henry Middlemore . John Gordon of Lochinvar wrote to Mary, Queen of Scots that he would not accept Regent Moray's terms and join his side. After his death an inventory was made of all
546-466: The regiment was renamed after Queen Charlotte as the 2nd (or The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons , the number being an attempt to create a new numbering system for the light dragoon regiments. However, the old system was quickly re-established, with the regiment returning as the 16th (The Queen's) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons in 1769. The regiment arrived in New York in October 1776 for service in
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#1733094000202572-432: The regimental battle honours and number in silver. In its early years as the 16th Light Dragoons, the regiment wore the standard red uniform of this branch of cavalry with black and then royal blue facings. In 1784 the red coat was replaced by a dark blue jacket. From 1816 to 1832 a dark blue lancer uniform was worn, until in December 1832 a scarlet coatee and undress jacket was authorized for all lancer regiments as part of
598-482: Was a cavalry regiment of the British Army , first raised in 1759. It saw service for two centuries, before being amalgamated with the 5th Royal Irish Lancers to form the 16th/5th Lancers in 1922. The regiment was raised in 1759 by Colonel John Burgoyne as the 16th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons , being the second of the new regiments of light dragoons ; it was also known as Burgoyne's Light Horse . The regiment
624-683: Was closely involved, undertaking several cavalry charges, in the action leading up to the capture of the French Garrison of Belle Île in April 1761 during the Seven Years' War . It also made a major contribution to the British victories against the Spaniards at the Battle of Valencia de Alcántara in August 1762 and at the Battle of Vila Velha in October 1762 during the Anglo-Spanish War . In 1766
650-565: Was not as commonly believed destroyed by fire. The remains of the castle were listed in 1971, and the site was scheduled in 1998. The castle is said to be haunted by a headless piper, " The Headless Piper of Kenmure ". A sundial bearing the date 1623 from Kenmure is now in Dumfries Museum . 55°3′47.520″N 4°8′17.952″W / 55.06320000°N 4.13832000°W / 55.06320000; -4.13832000 The Glenkens The Glenkens ( Scottish Gaelic : An Gleann Cain )
676-508: Was restored to Captain John Gordon in 1824 and who died in 1840, though it has been dormant since the death of his nephew, Adam the 8th/11th Viscount, in 1847. The castle was extensively remodelled and modernised during the 19th century, when the courtyard wall and the north-east tower were removed with the use of gunpowder. The south range was rebuilt in around 1840, Amongst the architects responsible for these changes were William McCandlish, in
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