Captain Alwyne Farquharson, benevolent Scottish laird and longest-serving clan chief who won an MC after the Normandy landings
Captain Alwyne Farquharson, 16th Laird of Invercauld, who has died aged 102, won an MC in 1944 shortly after D-Day and later became Scotland’s oldest and longest-serving clan chief; he was also chieftain of the Ballater Highland Games for a remarkable 73 years and a landowner held in great affection by his tenantry and local community....
Post by Michael Rhodeshttps://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2021/10/alwyne-arthur-compton-farquharson-of.html
He inherited the vast Invercauld estate and in the 1950s the Queen leased a grouse moor from him adjoining her own land at Balmoral