Janet Brennan

Janet Brennan lives in a 16th-century tower house in Galloway which she and her husband restored from a ruin in 2015. The 3-acre gardens, which they have developed from scratch, are open daily for Scotland’s Gardens charity.

Janet is Chair of the Galloway Members’ Group of the National Trust for Scotland, which organises lectures, walks and social events for its members and raises funds for Trust projects. She is the author of two books on Scottish castles: Scotland’s Castles: Rescued, Rebuilt and Reoccupied and A Passion for Castles: The Story of MacGibbon and Ross and the Castles they Surveyed. She is a former Chair of the Scottish Castles Association.

Janet was appointed to the Board of Historic Environment Scotland when the organisation was first formed in 2015 and served two terms of office. She is currently a trustee of the Whithorn Trust and the Crichton Trust.