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Alexander Wiseman MacAra was born on 4 May 1932 in Irvine, North Ayrshire, Scotland. [4] Both his father and grandfather were Church of Scotland Ministers. [5] Marion, his mother, was a civil servant. When he was six years old, MacAra was treated for paratyphoid fever, acute appendicitis and whooping cough. MacAra was educated at Irvine Royal ...
The Garnock Court fire was a fire that took place on 11 June 1999 at Garnock Court, a 14-storey block of flats in Irvine, Scotland, which resulted in one fatality.The fire spread via the external cladding, reaching the 12th floor within ten minutes of the start of the fire, destroying flats on nine floors.
Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland: Died: 30 March 1952 (aged 67) Westminster, London, England: Sir Andrew Rae Duncan (3 June 1884 – 30 March 1952) was a British ...
Sandy Jardine Davidson (28 May 1972 – disappeared 23 April 1976) was a Scottish boy who disappeared on 23 April 1976, when he was three years old, while he was playing in the back garden of his house in the Bourtreehill housing estate in Irvine, Ayrshire. [1]
He became the treasurer of the North Ayrshire Conservatives. A short-lived related group called the Irvine Unionist Club were fined £400 for not declaring £100,000 gifted to the Scottish Conservative campaign in 2016 via the North Ayrshire Conservative and Unionist Association, after a 'dark money' investigation.
Margaret Barclay (died 1618), was an accused witch put on trial in 1618, 'gently' tortured, confessed and was strangled and burned at the stake in Irvine, Scotland. [1] Her case was written about with horror (Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, 1830) by the romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott, [1] and in the 21st century, a campaign for a memorial in the town and for a pardon for Barclay and ...
Smail ministered at the West Kirk, West Calder, Midlothian, Trinity and Wilson Fullarton churches, Irvine, Ayrshire, Thornlie Church of Scotland, Wishaw, Lanarkshire and Whiteabbbey Presbyterian Church, Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland.
The publication, "The poets of Ayrshire from the fourteenth century till the present day, with selections from their writings" includes her work and gives the following details: "This authoress adds another to the long list of lowly minstrels belonging to Ayrshire. She was born in Irvine, and lived