James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater

Findlater Castle, ancestral seat of the Earls of Findlater.
Huntingtower Castle
Cullen House, seat of the Earls of Findlater and Seafield and where the young James Ogilvie would have grown up
Findlater's vineyard near Dresden, outline etching by Christian Gottlob Hammer, 1805
Gravestone for Findlater and Fischer at Loschwitz Church

James Ogilvy, 7th Earl of Findlater and 4th Earl of Seafield (10 April 1750 – 5 October 1811) was a Scottish peer and an accomplished amateur landscape architect and philanthropist. He promoted the British landscape garden in mainland Europe, where he spent lavishly on public works and "improvements of the scenery."[1]

  1. ^ LGBT: Findlater, James Ogilvy, Earl of (1750-1811) Retrieved 25-12-2010 Archived 4 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine