Laws Mansion
Laws estate near Monifieth is an ancient estate dating back to medieval times. It was once owned by the 6th Earl of Angus who married Margaret Douglas, widow of King James IV and sister of England’s Henry VIII. He forfeited all of his estates in 1528 and Laws passed through a number of hands including those of the Durham family of Grange. George Dempster of Dunnichen, son of a Monifieth minister, owned Laws in the late 18th Century.
Eventually Laws was sold to Thomas Colville in 1834. He built the new mansion shown in Forfarshire Illustrated. He had large interests in India and spent a great deal of time in that country. Tragedy struck on the eve of his departure from India when he fell victim to an assassin.
The mansion he built consisted of a dining room, drawing room, library, billiard room and nursery on the ground floor, 7 bedrooms, 3 dressing rooms and a bathroom on the first floor, plus the usual servants rooms, kitchen, dairies, stables and coach houses.
The mansion house was demolished in the 1960’s.
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