Fothringham, a Scottish Baronial mansion of 1859, designed by the late David Bryce, in Inverarity parish, Forfarshire, at the southern base of wooded Fothringham Hill (800 feet), 6 miles S by E of Forfar. It is a seat of Walter Thos. Jas. Scrymsoure-Fothringham, Esq. of Powrie, Fothringham, and Tealing (b. 1862; suc. 1864), who owns 12,529 acres in the county, valued at £13,400 per annum, and whose ancestor settled in Forfarshire in the latter half of the 14th century.—Ord. Sur., sh. 57, 1868.

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