Looking at baronial Blair Castle, with all its medieval-style turrets and crenellations, standing spectacularly amid the greenery of Glen Garry, Perthshire, it seems obvious that the grand house is the kind of place that would have nurtured politicians, entrepreneurs, soldiers, agriculturalists, and philanthropists over the centuries.
Home to the Atholl family for over 700 years, Blair Castle is the ancestral home of Clan Murray and is the historic seat of their chief, the Duke of Atholl.
The castle started life in 1269 as Comyn’s Tower, built by Lord Badenoch, who started building on the Earl of Atholl’s land while he was away on Crusade. The Earl, upon his return, complained to the king and won back his land, incorporating Comyn’s Tower into his own castle.
The Earl of Atholl title switched hands for a few centuries until 1629, when it
