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In 1996 he became Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway Region, [5] and held this post until succeeded by Malcolm Ross in March 2006. [ 6 ] Personal life and death
Thompson was born on 11 September 1928 in The Glenkens, Galloway, Scotland. [1] In the 1950s he went to Rome and studied at the Pontifical Scots College. [1] After the death of his father, he returned to Scotland without completing his studies, then spent seven years working for the Forestry Commission. [1]
He was Chief Constable of Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary from 1984 to 1989, [3] and President of ACPO from 1988 to 1989. He joined Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland in 1989 [4] and four years later became its head. Boyd died on 9 April 2024, at the age of 90. [5]
QoS Wanderers v 5th KRV, Dumfries and Galloway Standard, Wed Sep 12 1883. The 5th Kirkcudbrightshire Rifle Volunteers were formed in 1860 in response to the increasing unrest within Continental Europe and the British Empire. Ultimately, eleven Companies were raised throughout Galloway and their services were accepted by Queen Victoria. The 5th ...
The abbey, located on the banks of the New Abbey Pow (river), was founded by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, in memory of her husband, John de Balliol. After his death, she kept his embalmed heart, contained in a casket of ivory and silver, with her for the rest of her life, and it was buried alongside her when she ...
After McDiarmid's death in 1852, the editorship was taken over by his son, William R. M’Diarmid. [4] In 1884, the Courier was purchased by local conservatives and merged with the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Herald and Register in order to form the Dumfries and Galloway Courier and Herald. In 1939, it ceased publication owing to wartime paper ...
The term Dumfries and Galloway has been used since at least the 19th century – by 1911 the three counties had a united sheriffdom under that name. Dumfries and Galloway covers the majority of the western area of the Southern Uplands, [3] it also hosts Scotland's most Southerly point, at the Mull of Galloway [4] in the west of the region.