Sunday, 2 February 2014
406 Roger Aytoun
Constituency : Kirkcaldy Burghs 1862-74
Roger came in at Kirkcaldy Burghs after the resignation of Robert Ferguson.
Roger was born in Edinburgh to a wealthy landowning family and educated at Cambridge.
In 1868 Roger moved an amendment to the Irish Disestablishment Act stipulating that "no part of the secularised funds of the Anglican Chuirch, or any State funds whatever, be applied in any way, or in any form, to the endowment or furtherance of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland".
Roger was addicted to gambling and went bankrupt in 1901 and lost his estates hence the inscription "Last Laird of Inchdairnie" on his gravestone.
He died in 1904 aged 81. A golf trophy competition, the Inchdairnie Trophy, that he instigated is still played for today.
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