One of the first masters was the infamous Earl of Kilmarnock who lived in Callendar House. He lost his head following the Battle of Culloden in 1746 but the Lodge survived and continued to grow in ...

James Cunningham (1749-1791), the 14th Earl of Glencairn, was Robert Burns's close friend and patron. Following the success of the Kilmarnock edition, Poems, Chiefly in the Scots Dialect (1786 ...