[3] Sir Robert Strange was descended from a younger son of the house of Balcaskie whose family had settled in Orkney at the time of the Scottish Reformation.

[3] Strange served in the Life Guard during the Jacobite rising of 1745 until after the defeat at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

[3] He moved to London in 1751 where he began to receive critical acclaim for engraving several important historical prints.

[3] He left to tour Italy in 1760 and died in 1792, being considered the father of the art of engraving historical prints.

[5] Balcaskie in Fife was seat of John Strang who died at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547, the property then passed to the Moncreiffs in 1615, then to Sir William Bruce in 1665 and then to the Anstruthers in 1698.