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  2. John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. John Boyd (police officer) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet - Wikipedia

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    Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet (c. 1730 – 16 May 1783) was a Scottish politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1768 to 1780, representing the constituency of Dumfries Burghs. Early life

  5. Norman Arthur - Wikipedia

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    Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, Arthur was commissioned into the Royal Scots Greys in 1951. [1] At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome he was part of the British equestrian team for the three-day event; he withdrew after the cross-country phase.

  6. John Laurie - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm - Wikipedia

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    Hector Seymour Peter Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, AE, PC (4 October 1922 – 30 August 2006), was a Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire for over 32 years, from 1964 to 1997, and then a life peer in the House of Lords.

  8. Sanquhar Castle - Wikipedia

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    Situated on the southern approach to the former royal burgh of Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway, south west Scotland, it sits on the trail of the Southern Upland Way. The castle is a stronghold bounded on the west by the River Nith , to the north by a burn, and made strong by a deep ditch running the remainder of the boundary.

  9. Anna Park (Robert Burns) - Wikipedia

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    Full view of the Naysmith portrait of 1787, Scottish National Portrait Gallery Burns first met Anna Park at the Globe Tavern in Dumfries, where she worked as a barmaid. She was Burns's "Anna of the gowden locks" although when the song was first published in 1799 the subject of the song had "raven locks."

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