The Book Room and the Derby Suite

Leading out of the 4th Duke's Corridor on the left is the Red Dressing Room now used as a Book Room. It contains the library of Lord George Murray, which he had with him in exile in Holland.

At the end of the corridor is the Derby Dressing Room furnished almost entirely in broom wood. The cabinet was made by Sanderman of Perth for the 3rd Duke in 1758. The occasional tables and the Coin Cabinet in the form of a temple match it.

The Derby Room - so called in recognition of Lady Amelia Stanley's connection with the family - is the next room. Lady Amelia, who was the daughter of the 7th Earl of Derby and his wife, Charlotte de la Tremouille, married the 1st Marquis of Atholl. Charlotte de la Tremouille worked the embroidery of the bed curtains in this room while besieged in Latham House during the Civil War, although the bed itself is much later, being late-eighteenth century, and the embroidered coverlet is Indo-Portuguese. The large picture on the right, of the 2nd Duke's two daughters, Lady Jean and Lady Charlotte, is a copy of one by Jeremiah Davison burned in 1814. Lady Jean married Lord Crawford but died soon after; the younger daughter married her cousin, John, son of Lord George Murray. He afterwards became 3rd Duke upon the death of his uncle, her father, and she became Baroness Strange in her own right.