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The McLintock Baronetcy, of Sanquhar in the County of Dumfries, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 19 January 1934 for the accountant William McLintock. He was a senior partner in the firm of Thomson McLintock & Company, chartered accountants. [3]
Thomson began his senior football career at Clyde in 1991. Thomson made 151 league appearances and scored 11 goals. Clyde were Scottish Football League Division Two Champions in 1992–93 when Thomson was at the club and clinched the title at Palmerston Park, Dumfries away to Queen of the South, with a 3–2 win.
David Haggart (1801–1821), was a Scottish thief and rogue who in 1820 in his escape from Dumfries Gaol, (site now occupied by Thomson's the Jewellers ), killed the turnkey. He was hanged in Edinburgh in 1821. His dictated memoir published as a chapbook [99] became the subject of the 1969 John Huston film "Sinful Davey" starring John Hurt.
Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone FRSE FZS (1877-1949) civil servant and ornithologist, Lord Lieutenant of Dumfries, lived at Capenoch House in Penpont. [6] Joseph Thomson (1858–95), the geologist and explorer after whom Thomson's Gazelle is named, was born in Penpont. The sculptor Andy Goldsworthy [7] has lived in the village since 1986 and has a ...
Christian Jane Fergusson (1876–1957), Dumfries and Galloway landscape and still-life painter; John Duncan Fergusson (1874–1961), member of the Scottish Colourists school; Henry Snell Gamley (1865–1928), sculptor specialising in war memorials and tombs; Robert Gavin (1827–1883), painter; William Geissler (1894–1963), water-colourist of ...
Thompson was born on 11 September 1928 in The Glenkens, Galloway, Scotland. [1] In the 1950s he went to Rome and studied at the Pontifical Scots College. [1] After the death of his father, he returned to Scotland without completing his studies, then spent seven years working for the Forestry Commission. [1]
The council area of Dumfries and Galloway covers 6,426 square kilometres (2,481 sq mi), and has a population of around 148,600. There are 224 Category A listed buildings in the area. There are 224 Category A listed buildings in the area.
For the purposes of the review the Boundary Commission for Scotland must take into account the boundaries of the local government council areas.In order to do this some council areas were grouped together, the largest of these groupings of provisional proposals consisted of four of Scotland's 32 council areas the smallest only containing one.