22-599: Hon. Angela Pearson became Angela Murray and Angela Campbell-Preston (27 February 1910 – 1981) was a British businessperson, landowner, and conservationist. She managed her families estates and houses, hospitals and newspapers. She was a supporter of the National Trust for Scotland . Pearson was born in Whitehall in Westminster in 1910. Her mother was Agnes Beryl Spencer-Churchill (1881–1948) and her father
44-595: A working party for the King's Fund which looked at the optimum design of a standard hospital bedstead. Pearson died in Ardchattan and Muckairn in 1981 survived by her husband. She had sat the year before for a painting by Bryan Organ . This painting is in the collection of Blair Castle where in 2023 her daughter, Sarah Troughton, was the chief trustee. National Trust for Scotland The National Trust for Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic : Urras Nàiseanta na h-Alba )
66-543: Is a Scottish conservation organisation . It is the largest membership organisation in Scotland and describes itself as "the conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland's natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to enjoy". The Trust owns and manages around 130 properties and 180,000 acres (73,000 ha; 730 km ) of land, including castles , ancient small dwellings, historic sites, gardens , coastline, mountains and countryside. It
88-543: Is guided by its Wild Land Policy which aims to preserve the land in its undeveloped state and provide access and enjoyment to the public. Trust sites are home to a diverse variety of native wildlife. The Trust estimate that almost 25% of Scotland's seabirds nest on its island and coastal sites, equivalent to 8% of seabirds in Europe. The Trust's countryside properties are home to native mammal species including red deer , pine marten , wildcat and red squirrel . Since 1957,
110-577: Is similar in function to the National Trust , which covers England , Wales , and Northern Ireland , and to other national trusts worldwide. The Trust was established in 1931 as the "National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty", following discussions held in the smoking room of Pollok House (now a Trust property). The Trust was incorporated on 1 May 1931, with John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl being elected as its first president, Sir Iain Colqhoun serving as
132-518: The House of Dun to humbler dwellings such as the Tenement House and Moirlanich Longhouse . The Trust is Scotland's largest garden owner with just under 70 gardens that cover 238 hectares and contain 13,500 varieties of plant. These gardens include 35 "major gardens" with the remainder forming part of other properties. The gardens represent the full history of Scottish gardening ranging from
154-585: The Slave Compensation Act 1837 . The Trust is a registered charity under Scottish law . As of 2022 it employed 469 people on a full-time equivalent basis (or 760 in total when taking account of seasonal employees), and had over 310,000 members. The Trust's Patron is King Charles III ; the President is Jackie Bird ; the CEO is Philip Long OBE; and the chairman is Sir Mark Jones . For
176-685: The 23 year old chair of the South London Hospital for Women and Children . Within four years the hospital was opening a new south wing. She led the hospital during the war when an act of parliament was required to allow the hospital to treat men. The hospital was modified as underused spaces were converted into wards for casualties and new operating theatres. Her husband Tony was killed in Italy in 1945. Their only child to survive childhood became, in 1957, Iain Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl . After
198-512: The Trust gained the power to declare its properties "inalienable", meaning that they are effectively held in perpetuity , and can only be removed from the Trust with parliamentary permission. When the Trust took on the management of mountain estates there was controversy concerning issues such as the siting of visitor centres, which some considered inappropriate for land of "wild" character. The Trust has since removed some intrusive facilities, with
220-520: The Trust have owned and managed the archipelago of St Kilda , Scotland's first World Heritage Site and the only World Heritage Site in the UK to be listed for both its natural and cultural significance. St Kilda and the surrounding sea stacks are home to over one million seabirds as well as three species unique to the islands; the Soay sheep ; St Kilda field mouse and St Kilda wren . Across its properties
242-518: The Trust is responsible for the conservation and display of hundreds of thousands of objects from paintings to furniture and domestic tools. The primary aim of the Trust's curatorship is to present collections and works of art in the historic settings for which they were commissioned or acquired. In the year 2021–21 the Trust welcomed 2.2 million visitors to its properties, of which 1.3 million were visits to "gated" properties (properties which non-members are required to pay for entry). In 2016
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#1732790590750264-700: The Trust's finances allowed it to make its first acquisition in seven years when it bought the Alloa Tower in Clackmannanshire in 2015. Historians working for the NTS have estimated that at least 36 of the 139 historic properties owned by the Trust have links to the Atlantic slave trade . Many former of owners of NTS properties either directly or indirectly benefited from the ownership or exploitation of enslaved people, or received compensation payments from
286-795: The United States ( The National Trust for Scotland Foundation USA ), and Canada (The Canadian National Trust for Scotland Foundation). The organisation's membership magazine was Heritage Scotland until 2002 when it was re-named Scotland in Trust . For the maintenance of its nature properties, the Trust depends on the contributions of volunteers, with local circles of Conservation Volunteers working on projects during weekends. The charity also organises working holidays called "Thistle Camps" on various properties, with activities undertaken including footpath maintenance and woodland work such as rhododendron control. The Trust owns many historic houses, ranging from large houses such as Culzean Castle and
308-580: The board of the Pearson company in 1953 and she was appointed chair of their Westminster Press which owned a number of British regional newspaper titles. She supported each of them in delivering local news to various cities like Oxford and Brighton and the readers of the Northern Echo . Pearson had helped to manage Blair Castle in Perthshire since the 1930s when her grandmother had invested in
330-491: The estate. She had lived there from 1945 when she became a widow. She had then supervised the appointment of a new management throughout the estate to bring it back into profitability. She had donated houses on the estate to the National Trust for Scotland after the war and she enjoying refurbishing small houses. In 1960 she gave he expertise as a member of the board of the National Trust for Scotland and in 1967 she led
352-487: The first chairman. Sir John Stirling Maxwell , owner of Pollok House, was appointed as a vice-president, and provided the trust with its first property, Crookston Castle . Another early acquisition was Glen Coe , which was purchased with assistance from the Scottish Mountaineering Club in 1935. In 1935, following the passage of the National Trust for Scotland Order Confirmation Act 1935,
374-609: The late medieval at Culross Palace , through the 18th-century picturesque at Culzean Castle and Victorian formality at the House of Dun to 20th-century plant collections at Brodick and Inverewe . The Trust is the third largest land manager in Scotland, owning 76,000 hectares of Scottish countryside including 46 Munros , more than 400 islands and islets and significant stretches of coastline. Trust countryside properties include Glen Coe , Torridon and Mar Lodge Estate . The Trust's management of its coastal and countryside sites
396-425: The original Glen Coe Visitor Centre being removed in 2002; a new centre was built lower down the glen. Similarly the visitor centre at Ben Lawers was removed in 2012. In August 2010, a report called Fit For Purpose by George Reid , commissioned by the Trust, cited shortcomings that were corrected though organizational restructuring largely completed by the end of its 2011/12 Fiscal Year. The stabilisation of
418-527: The war she was a widow and she led the Lambeth group of hospitals for the newly formed National Health Service. In 1950 she married Lieutenant-Colonel Robert (Bobby) Modan Thorne Campbell-Preston and moved to his home, Ardchattan Priory , by Loch Etive in Argyllshire. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1951. She moved her focus from hospitals to the huge family business which included publishing. She joined
440-534: The year ended 28 February 2022, the Trust's total income was £51.9 million, up from £44.3 million in 2020–21. The largest sources of income were membership subscriptions (£14.7 million), commercial activities (£9.0 million), investment income (£5.3 million), and property income (£5.3 million). In the same year the Trust's total expenditure was £51.9 million, up from £44.1 million in 2020–21. The Trust therefore recorded an operating operational deficit of £11.3 million, however this
462-464: Was Harold Pearson, 2nd Viscount Cowdray (1882–1933). Her twin brother was John Pearson, 3rd Viscount Cowdray who at one point was said to be the sixth richest person in the world. Pearson and her twin brother had three sisters and they were all raised at the family seat of Cowdray Park in West Sussex . In 1930 she married Lieutenant-Colonel George Anthony (Tony) Murray and in 1933 she became
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#1732790590750484-782: Was less bad than anticipated and largely attributed to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic . A three-year Business Recovery Plan is in place to restore financial sustainability and ensure the trust is able to undertake repairs and maintenance delayed by the pandemic, and to continue to invest in conservation and visitor engagement activities at its properties. Annual membership of the Trust allows free entry to properties and "Discovery Tickets" are available for shorter term visitors. Membership also provides free entry to National Trust properties in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and vice versa. The Trust has independent sister organisations in
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