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Beith history
Name
Beith’s name is thought to emanate from Ogham, sometimes referred to as the “Celtic Tree Alphabet”, ascribing names of trees to individual letters . Beithe in Old Irish means Birch-tree (cognate to Latin betula) There is reason to believe that the whole of the district was covered with woods .
Saint Inan
Beith is said to have been the occasional residence of Saint Inan, a confessor of some celebrity, whose principal place of abode was Irvine . A cleft in the west-front of Lochlands Hill is still known as St. Inan’s Chair .
Alexander Montgomerie
Alexander Montgomerie is regarded as one of the finest of Middle Scots poets . He is perhaps the greatest Scottish exponent of the sonnet form . He was probably born in Hazelhead Castle, on the outskirts of Beith .
Smugglers
In 1733 smugglers sacked Irvine Customs House, escaping with a rich booty of confiscated goods . By 1789 a company of 76 soldiers were quartered in the town dealing with the continuing illicit trade in tea, tobacco, and spirits . The Main Street’s popular public house is still called the Smugglers Tavern .
Morrishill and James Montgomery
Morrishill was owned by Robert Shedden, who purchased the land in 1748 . It is notoriously linked to the case of James Montgomery . Now a small housing estate, it is a short distance south of Beith .
Rev. John Witherspoon
Rev. John Witherspoon was a former minister of one its Church of Scotland parishes between 1745–1757 . In 1745 he led the men of Beith to Glasgow to defend King George III against the Young Pretender in the ’45 rebellion . He was captured at the Battle of Falkirk and imprisoned for a time in Doune Castle . He later emigrated and became a member of the US congress and voted for the Resolution for Independence .
Robert Tannahill
The Scottish Poet Robert Tannahill’s relatives lived at Boghall Farm near Gateside . His mother, Janet Pollock, and uncle, Hugh Brodie, farmed at Langcroft at the foot of Calder Glen near Lochwinnoch .
Henry Faulds
Henry Faulds was born in Beith in 1843 and wrote to Charles Darwin to forward his ideas . He died in 1930, bitter at the lack of recognition he had received for his work . His work in Japan is remembered by a memorial stone in Tokyo .
Robert Aitken
Aitken was a land surveyor and cartographer . He published in Beith a New Parish Atlas of Ayrshire in 1829 .
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