A Brief History of Winton House   Constance Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvy. She was descended from the seventh Earl, who had been so anxious to secure the Nisbet Hamilton inheritance to the Elgin title. About this time Constance took stock of her affairs, to consider providing an income for her heir in entail, J.P. Grant. Otherwise, he was faced with going to Nigeria, then known as the White Man's Grave. Constance's husband, Henry Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvy died on 19 December 1909. His obituary notices tell us he was a Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace in the county, and a member of the County Council. He was Chairman of the Lunacy Board and the Bill Committee, and member of several School Boards and Parish Councils. He was a keen curler and President of the Biel and Dirleton Curling clubs, and Patron of that at Winton. Two services were held at Biel and one at St. Baldred's, North Berwick. The funeral came from Biel to Pencaitland at two o'clock and the service was performed according to the Anglican rite. After her husband's death, his widow lived a quieter life mainly at Winton. During this period she perhaps gained the reputation that led to my title, visiting the farms but saying little or nothing. Devoted to the memory of her husband with whom she had been so happy, she expected the tenants to have their photographs in their dining rooms. She visited the schools in the villages and seemed a very formal old lady to the children. Once more, there was building work. Gilbert Ogilvy designed the laundry at Winton for her, and in 1914 she fitted it out as a convalescent home for officers. The War Office declined it and she dismantled the fittings, at which point the War Office changed its mind. Mrs. Nisbet Hamilton Ogilvy died on 25 June 1920. Her funeral service was held in the Inner Hall at Winton, and she was buried beside her husband in the new burial ground at Pencaitland. Many tributes were paid to her generosity, to her support of the Church, especially the Episcopal church, to her accomplishments, to her interest in local affairs, her love of music and history, to her patriotism and finally to justify my title, in the words of the Parish Minister of Pencaitland "To outsiders she might seem stiff and proud, but under great shyness there was a very humble and tender heart. No good object appealed to her in vain and she was ever ready to help where there was distress." The estates of Biel and Archerfield passed to Lt. Col. J.P. Nisbet Hamilton Grant D.S.O. of Kilgraston, who was descended from Lady Lucy Bruce. He died in 1950 and Biel then passed to his relative, Vice Admiral Basil Brooke. In 1952 Admiral Brooke demolished the chapel built by Rowand Anderson in 1883, and most of the building done by William Atkinson in the early nineteenth century. The porch was resited. He sold Biel to Charles J. Spence Esq. in 1958. Admiral Brooke died in 1982. The Winton Estate was bequeathed to Gilbert Ogilvy. Herbert Ogilvy had succeeded to the Ogilvy Baronetcy because his nephew had been killed in action in 1914. Gilbert had already been involved in building projects at Winton. His elder son, David, inherited it from his father in 1953 and, as Herbert died in 1956 without an heir, he also inherited the Ogilvy title. Sir David Ogilvy died in 1992 and was succeeded by his only son, Francis, as 14th Baronet of Inverquharity and Laird of Winton.