James Byres [ Travel ]
… ‘Gavin Hamilton Leading a Party of Grand Tourists to the Archaelogical Site at Gabii’, 1793, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, D 5361. Image Franciszek Smuglevicz, ‘James Byres of Tonley and members of his family’, c. 1780, … the Eternal City. James Byres was born in 1734 in Tonley to a Jacobite 1 family in Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland. Forced into exile following the 1745-46 uprising in favour of the Stuart cause, Byres and his family lived … Christopher Norton 5 and his nephew Patrick Moir, who continued to manage Byres's business when the latter returned to Scotland permanently in 1790. Each of these activities depended on the other and enabled him to become a central link in …
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