David Erskine’s (1772-1837) was a dramatist and Antiquary. In the third of his sketchbooks I found his watercolour of the family home ‘Kirkhill’ in Uphall, West Lothian :
I once made a film about his father, David Stewart Erskine, the 11th Earl of Buchan, antiquary, eccentric and astronomer.
He predicted one of the rarest events in the solar system:
To play this short film please click here.