Monboddo House, an old mansion, amid pleasant plantations, in Fordoun parish, Kincardineshire, 1¼ mile E by S of Auchinblae, and 2¼ miles NNW of Fordoun station. It was the birthplace of the judge, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo (1714-99), who anticipated Darwin in an evolution theory-of monkeys whose tails wore off with constant sitting. His descendant, James Cumine Burnett, Esq., holds 3000 acres in the shire, valued at £2540 per annum.Ord. Sur., sh. 66, 1871.
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