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The sum of £6,720 Scots was not repaid in 1586, and Cagnioli claimed it from his grandson, John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis. [ 6 ] In 1558 he was present, as one of the eight Commissioners appointed by the Scottish Parliament , at the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots , to the Dauphin of France , to whom the Scottish deputies unanimously ...
Scott was once Scotland's largest private landowner, owning 217,000 acres (880 km 2) of Scottish land, but was surpassed by Anders Holch Povlsen who currently holds 221,000 acres (890 km 2) in the country. [3] [4] The Duke was appointed as Chancellor of the Order of the Thistle by Charles III on 9 December 2023. [5]
Laird (earlier lard) is the now-standard Scots pronunciation (and phonetic spelling) of the word that is pronounced and spelled in standard English as lord. [3] As can be seen in the Middle English version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, [4] specifically in the Reeve's Tale, Northern Middle English had a where Southern Middle English had o, a difference still found in standard English two and ...
Catherine Margaret Mary Maxwell Stuart, 21st Lady of Traquair DL (born 16 November 1964) is a Scottish landowner, politician, hotelier, brewer, and writer. She is the first female Laird of Traquair and, at the time she succeeded her father in 1990, she was the only female laird in Scotland.
Walter Campbell, 3rd of Shawfield and Islay and 9th of Skipness (29 December 1741 – 19 October 1816) was a Scottish landowner, advocate and Rector of Glasgow University. Early life [ edit ]
Colonel Sir Robert "Bobby" Christie Stewart KCVO CBE TD (1926 – 25 September 2019) was a Scottish landowner who had a military career in the British Army and was a Lord Lieutenant of two counties in Scotland. [1] He was generally referred to in the community as R. C. Stewart.
Home was knighted at Stirling Castle on 25 May 1565 when Mary, Queen of Scots made Lord Darnley Earl of Ross. [3] Regent Morton appointed Home as warden of the East March of the Scottish borders in November 1573. They disagreed, and Morton replaced him in 1578. [4]