Finzean House, a mansion in Birse parish, S Aberdeenshire, 7 miles SE by E of Aboyne station, this being 32½ miles W by S of Aberdeen. A fine old building, forming three sides of a quadrangle, it stands amid large and richly wooded grounds. Its owner, Robert Farquharson, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P. (b. 1837; suc. 1876), was elected Liberal member of West Aberdeenshire in 1880, and holds 16,809 acres in the county, valued at £6167 per annum.-Ord. Sur., sh. 66, 1871.

(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)