Lieut-General Sir Frederick William Traill Burroughs KCB

Frederick was born in 1831 and inherited the Island of Rousay in the Orkneys when he was a teenager. He was commissioned into the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders at the age of 17 and served in the Crimea. The regiment was destined for China after that but went to India to help deal with the Indian Mutiny of 1857. At Lucknow he was injured and recommended for the VC but it went to another 93rd officer.
He became lieutenant-colonel and CO of the 93rd in 1864 when it was patrolling on the North West Frontier. On his return to the UK he was in command of the garrison at Edinburgh Castle then retired from the army in 1873. He lived on Rousay Island and organised the building of Trumland House. He initiated a number of improvements on the island but gained a reputation for harsh treatment of his tenants. He lacked money so increased the rents and evicted those who could not pay. The photo shows him with his wife Lizzie. He was only 5ft tall. He became Colonel of the Royal Warwicks in 1897 and Colonel of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1904, in which year he was knighted. He died on 9th April 1905.

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