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Upload another image Coll-Earn Castle Hotel, Hunter Street And High Street 56°17′59″N 3°42′12″W / 56.299773°N 3.703447°W / 56.299773; -3.703447 (Coll-Earn Castle Hotel, Hunter Street And High Street) Category B 21358 Upload Photo Auchterarder House 56°18′43″N 3°41′55″W / 56.311899°N 3.698539°W / 56.311899; -3.698539 (Auchterarder House ...
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John Gordon, 14th Earl of Sutherland was married to Lady Jean Drummond, daughter of James Drummond, 1st Earl of Perth, by whom he had four children: [3]. John Gordon, Lord Strathnaver, born on 21 November 1632, and died on 14 October 1637 of Smallpox at Dunrobin Castle.
In a personal memoir, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling (c. 1567 –1640), cited a "misty Highland genealogy" in tracing his family origin, in which he claimed descent from Somerled, Lord of the Isles (died 1164), through his descendant John MacDonald, Lord of the Isles (Eoin Carrach MacDomhnaill, 7th Lord of the Isles) of Clan MacDonald.
The crest badge used by members of House of Boyd contains the motto CONFIDO ("I trust"). The blazon of the crest is A dexter hand erect in pale having the outer fingers bowed inwards . The crest badge is the heraldic property of the chief, though any member of the clan may wear this badge to show allegiance to the chief and family.
The oldest surviving house (recently restored) dates from the 1730s. The fountain at the centre of the village dates from 1874 and was gifted by Alexander Martin, a former Dunning resident, who made his fortune in New Brunswick as a confectioner. It includes interesting stone carvings in a medieval style, including an otter eating a trout.
Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and 6th Lord Home (c. 1566 – 5 April 1619), was a Scottish nobleman and Lord Warden-general of all the March. He succeeded as the 6th Lord Home, a Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland , in 1575, and he was created Earl of Home in the Peerage of Scotland in 1605.
His father was Great Chamberlain to James IV of Scotland from 7 October 1488. Alexander succeeded his father as Lord Home, Chamberlain and Warden of the Eastern and Middle Marches in 1506, and was confirmed in these honours by royal charter in February 1510. [1] In 1507 he bought the lands and burgh of Gordon from the Earl of Huntly.