Noteworthy hangings
September 11th, 2017
Nancy J. Hughes’s second book, Found Art of the Clans Erskine & Holland 1710-1965 (Victoria: Wildflower Publishing House, 2017 $30) concerns ancestors of the author’s birth mother’s grandfather, David Erskine Gellatley of Westbank, Kelowna, reaching back to 1710. We follow heirlooms that belonged to the Erskine & Holland families in Scotland and England as an art collecton passes through three hundred years of descendants. Along the way relatives become Lord Advocates of Scotland, Lord High Chancellor of the United Kingdom and judicial advisors to the King of Siam. Sprinkle in some adultery, illegitimacy and connections with Sir Isaac Newton, Rudyard Kipling, George Washington, Mahatma Gandhi and Sir Walter Scott, Sigmund Freud
Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler. Author photo by Vicki Hughes Romera.
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