Speaker Penny McWatters in front of a portrait of the 6th Duke of Hamilton’s wife Elizabeth Gunning.
Penny McWatters was the speaker at the February meeting of The Arran Historical Society held in Brodick Hall where she gave a talk on the Hamilton family from the year 1750 to around 1850.
Some of what she found was most entertaining – stranger than fiction. She illustrated her talk with portraits of the family members, as well as letters written by them and their officials from the Hamilton family archives.