Cambo Estate

Sir John de Cambhou fought at the Battle of Methven (1306), but was captured by the English and hanged at Newcastle.

[1] In 1668, Sir Charles Erskine, Bt (d. 1677), the Lord Lyon King of Arms and brother of the 3rd Earl of Kellie,[2] purchased the property from the creditors of Patrick Merton.

[3] The estate passed through the Erskine family to the 5th Earl of Kellie, who forfeited his lands after supporting the Jacobite rising of 1745.

[2] His descendants continued the improvement of the estate through the 19th century, laying out ornamental gardens, with a series of early cast iron bridges.

[2] The Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, an annual pro-am golf tournament, is played in September on Kingsbarns, St Andrews Old Course, and Carnoustie.