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- This proprietor of Stronvar, or, as he was familiarly known by his clansmen and countrymen as Rob a Mhinisteir (the Minister's Robert), was a great legal luminary. It is told that on one occasion he took a case all the way to what was called the Green Table in London, and won it, which was considered in those days the most wonderful feat in the law line. Hence the people of Balquhidder looked up to him with awe and reverence. When any of them happened to quarrel and be thought them of going to get the matter settled by the lawyers at Dunblane, the laird of Stronvar soon settled it for them without going so far, and so saved them much trouble and expense. From this may be gathered the depth of meaning in the speech which the chief of the M'Nabs delivered over the grave of Rob a Mhinisteir. As the people (almost all the parish was there) were gazing at the newly closed grave, M'Nab thus briefly addressed them:
"Men of Balquhidder, you may well look at that grave, forere twelve months will have passed over you, you will be ready to give the teeth out of your heads if you could call him back again whom you have this day laid in the dust."
According to Stewarts of the South, Capt. Robert Ferguson acquired Stronvar from the Stewarts of Hyndfield (aka Stronvar) who were a cadet branch of the Stewarts of Gartnafuaran. Stronvar passed from Capt. Robert Ferguson of Stronvar to his nephew, John Ferguson, who was Provost of Cupar in Fife who sold it to Capt. Duncan Stewart, 16th of Glenbuckie.
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1743 - UNKNOWN
