Footnotes

Provenance:
Probably James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl (1690-1764)
The Bagshawe family, formerly of Ford Hall and Snetterton Hall, Derbyshire
Thence by descent until acquired by the present owner

The Bagshawe family were related to the Caldwell family of Co. Fermanagh, Ireland by the marriage in 1751 of Catherine, younger daughter of Sir John Caldwell, 3rd Baronet to Colonel Samuel Bagshawe. Colonel Bagshaw (1713-62) served in the 39th Regiment of Foot in Gibraltar, Ireland and India. He was Second-in-Command in the East Indies and later raised his own regiment, the 93rd, in Ireland

The Murray's were related to the Bagshawe family by the marriage in 1798 of the Rev. William Bagshawe, younger son of Colonel Samuel Bagshawe, to Anne Murray, sister of Lt. Gen. William Murray (formerly Foxlowe) of Banner Cross, Yorkshire. Lt. Gen. William Foxlowe had adopted the name Murray in 1782 on his marriage to the Hon. Mary Murray, only daughter of Lord John Murray, son of the 1st Duke of Atholl. Lord John Murray had inherited Banner Cross Hall from his wife Mary Dalton in 1748 and it became the Yorkshire seat of the Murray family. In 1767 he inherited Huntingtower Castle in Perth from his father, the 1st Duke, and moved most of the Castle contents to Banner Cross Hall. William and Mary were childless and on William's death in 1818 the Hall went to his sister Anne, who by that time was Mrs William Bagshawe. It was therefore through the Rev. William Bagshawe, who succeeded to Ford Hall, that the estate of Banner Cross together with its contents from the Murray/Atholl family came the possession of the Bagshawes at Ford Hall

Peter 1 Gandon, a Huguenot immigrant gunmaker came to London in the 1690's, was naturalised in 1710 and admitted to the freedom of the Gunmaker's Company in 1720. he died in about 1743, some seventy years of age

For two flintlock rifles and a flintlock sporting gun all by the same maker and sold from Blair Castle, Blair Atholl see Christie's South Kensington, European Noble & Private Collections, The Blair Charitable Trust, Removed from Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Scotland, 30 April 2015, lots 197-199