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  2. Brodie Castle - Wikipedia

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    Brodie Castle is a well-preserved Z-plan tower house located about 3.5 miles (5.5 kilometres) west of Forres, in Moray, Scotland. The castle is a Category A listed building , [ 1 ] and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland .

  3. Brodie - Wikipedia

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    Brodie can be a given name or a surname of Scottish origin, and a location in Moray, Scotland, its meaning is uncertain; it is not clear if Brodie, as a word, has its origins in the Gaelic or Pictish languages. In 2012 this name was the 53rd most popular boys' name in Scotland. [2] The given name originates from the surname. [3]

  4. Clan Brodie - Wikipedia

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    Tempted, Lord Brodie resisted Oliver Cromwell's summons to discuss a union of Scotland and England, writing in his diary "Oh Lord he has met with the lion and the bear before, but this is the Goliath; the strongest and greatest temptation is last.". Lord Brodie was the target of an unsuccessful royalist plot for his capture in 1650. He was the ...

  5. Scottish surnames - Wikipedia

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    Many of these surnames were brought to Scotland by Anglo-Normans, whose surnames were derived from either lands in Normandy or in England (for example, Bruce is derived from Brix in Manche, France, [10] Crawford is derived from Crawford, South Lanarkshire, in the south of Scotland, Barton is derived from Dumbarton, or the several villages and ...

  6. Brody (name) - Wikipedia

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    Brody Castle in Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. Bródy is a Hungarian surname. The "ó" is a long o [o:] in Hungarian, and the "y" indicates a "from": "from Bród". This surname is also associated with the Ukrainian city of Brody.

  7. Elizabeth Gordon, Duchess of Gordon - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Gordon, Duchess of Gordon (née Brodie; 20 June 1794 – 31 January 1864), was a Scottish noblewoman. In 1813, she married George Gordon, Marquis of Huntly, afterwards the 5th Duke of Gordon. She was a member of the Scottish Episcopal Church but left it and joined the Free Church of Scotland in 1846.

  8. James Brodie (politician, born 1695) - Wikipedia

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    James Brodie, 18th of Brodie (1695 – 2 October 1720), was a Scottish clan chief and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1720. Brodie Castle-seat of the Brodie clan Broadie was the eldest son of George Brodie of Ailisk . [ 1 ]

  9. William Brodie - Wikipedia

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    William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild, and Edinburgh city councillor, who maintained a secret life as a burglar, partly for the thrill, and partly to fund his gambling.