A marriage, a new castle above the Tay, the earldom of Moray, a garden and two wars.
17 October 1741. John, 11th Lord Gray, married Margaret Blair, heiress of Kinfauns, and with her the lordship came to the Grays. He is counted the 12th Lord Kinfauns.The 1820s. Francis, 14th Lord Gray and 15th Lord Kinfauns, built the new Kinfauns Castle on the hill above the Tay.1895. Edmund Stuart Gray, 19th Lord Kinfauns, became 15th Earl of Moray, and Kinfauns merged into the earldom. For more than a century the Lords of Kinfauns were Earls of Moray.1910. Morton Stuart, 21st Lord Kinfauns, was the gardener of the family, and the walled garden at Kinfauns was laid out in his time.His sons went to war. Francis, later the 22nd Lord, served with the Scottish Horse and the Royal Air Force in the First World War and won the Military Cross. Archibald, later the 23rd, served in the Royal Navy in both World Wars. After 1930 the Kinfauns estate was sold, but the title stayed with the Earls of Moray.
