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He was known as Johnny Dumfries, or, after he succeeded his father as marquess in 1993, John Bute. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He attended Ampleforth College , as had his father and most male members of the Crichton-Stuart family, but did not finish the normal five years of study.
The Dumfries Courier is a weekly newspaper published in Annan, Scotland. It was founded in 1809 by Rev. Dr Henry Duncan (1774-1846) as The Dumfries and Galloway Courier and is currently published by the DNG Media Group as the Dumfries Courier .
Central Fife Times and Advertiser – weekly tabloid newspaper and classified advertiser in the Cowdenbeath, Kelty and Lochgelly area; Dunfermline Press – weekly tabloid newspaper for West Fife; East Fife Mail – tabloid weekly sister paper of Fife Free Press for the Levenmouth area; Fife Free Press – weekly tabloid newspaper for the ...
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The Dumfries & Galloway Standard is a tabloid newspaper which primarily serves Dumfries and the surrounding towns and villages such as Thornhill, Sanquhar, Lockerbie and Annan. But it also covers Castle Douglas , Kirkcudbright , Gretna and news in Wigtownshire such as in the town of Stranraer .
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]
Near to Kelton is the memorial to Angus Mckay, the first royal piper, serving Queen Victoria. Later he was a patient at the Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries. He died on 21 March 1859 after escaping and is presumed to have drowned in the River Nith. A memorial was placed at the site of his disappearance to commemorate his life in 2010.
Laurie was born on 25 March 1897 in Dumfries [5] to William Laurie (1856–1903), a clerk in a tweed mill and later a hatter and hosier, and Jessie Ann Laurie (née Brown; 1858–1935). He attended grammar school at Dumfries Academy, then abandoned a career in architecture to serve in the First World War as a member of the Honourable Artillery ...