Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Mr Patrick Gordon-Duff-Pennington. Ardverikie House, Scottish Highlands. Muncaster Castle. Mrs Althea Dundas-Becker. Arniston House, Midlothian. Major-General Sir John Swinton of Kimmerghame. Kimmerghame House, Berwickshire. Sir John Roderick Hugh McEwen of Marchmont and Bardrochat Bt, Commander of Clan MacEwen.
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 ...
The following is a list of Scottish clans (with and without chiefs) – including, when known, their heraldic crest badges, tartans, mottoes, and other information. The crest badges used by members of Scottish clans are based upon armorial bearings recorded by the Lord Lyon King of Arms in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland .
The Preaching of Knox before the Lords of the Congregation, 10th June 1559 (David Wilkie, 1832). The Lords of the Congregation (Scots: Lairds o the Congregatioun), originally styling themselves the Faithful, [1] were a group of Protestant Scottish nobles who in the mid-16th century favoured a reformation of the Catholic church according to Protestant principles and a Scottish-English alliance.
Walter Campbell of Shawfield. Archibald Campbell (died 1868) James Clerk-Rattray. Adam Cockburn, Lord Ormiston. John Cockburn of Ormiston. Laird of Craigmillar. Alexander Crichton of Brunstane. Laird of Crookston.
Clan Campbell. Clan Maitland. Clan Gordon is a Highland Scottish clan, historically one of the most powerful Scottish clans. The Gordon lands once spanned a large territory across the Highlands. Presently, Gordon is seated at Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire. The Chief of the clan is the Earl of Huntly, later the Marquess of Huntly.
The sixth Laird of Drum and chief of Clan Irvine was a peacemaker, and was rewarded by King James V of Scotland for his efforts to suppress rebels, thieves, reivers, sorcerers and murderers in 1527. [5] [7] During the Anglo-Scottish Wars the sixth Laird's son was killed when the clan fought against the English at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in ...
The most famous of the name was John Napier the seventeenth Laird of Merchiston who developed the system of Logarithm. [ 2 ] In 1617 he was succeeded by his son, Archibald Napier, 1st Lord Napier who accompanied James VI and I to claim his new throne in England. [ 2 ] Napier married the daughter of the fourth Earl of Montrose and sister of ...