The ambitious Scottish 18th century artist Gavin Hamilton found a solution to the problem of using modern dress, considered unheroic and inelegant, in history painting by using Middle Eastern settings with Europeans wearing local costume, as travellers were advised to do.

On Christmas Day 1950, a group of four Scottish students ( Ian Hamilton, Gavin Vernon, Kay Matheson, and Alan Stuart ) took the Stone from Westminster Abbey for return to Scotland.

* Gavin Hamilton, Dawkins and Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra

The Leconfield Head, the keystone of the Greek antiquities at Petworth was probably bought from Gavin Hamilton in Rome in 1755.

Winckelmann was involved in the dissemination of knowledge of the first large Roman paintings to be discovered, at Pompeii and Herculaneum and, like most contemporaries except for Gavin Hamilton, was unimpressed by them, citing Pliny the Younger's comments on the decline of painting in his period.

In James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra ( 1758 ) by Gavin Hamilton, the two gentleman antiquaries are shown in toga-like Arab robes.

File: Hamilton Palmyra. JPG | James Dawkins and Robert Wood Discovering the Ruins of Palmyra, by Gavin Hamilton ( 1758 )

John Moore ( Scottish physician ) | Moore's father, the Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton | 8th Duke of Hamilton, and a young John Moore, painted in Rome by Gavin Hamilton ( artist ) | Gavin Hamilton, 1775-6

* Gavin Hamilton, artist and antiquarian, painter and archaeologist, in Genzano and Lanuvio ( 18th century )

Hamilton has also been involved in music production, most notably producing " Distort Yourself " by Gavin Rossdale's band Institute, Bullets and Octane's second album, In The Mouth Of The Young, released in 2006, and the Classic Case album Losing at Life.

Portrait by Gavin Hamilton ( artist ) | Gavin Hamilton commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

Gavin MacLeod ( born Allan George See, February 28, 1931 ) is an American actor notable for playing Joseph " Happy " Haines on McHale's Navy, Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat.

It was so popular, Gavin subsequently went on to make films about Captain Moonlite, Ben Hall and Frank Gardiner.

* Gavin MacLeod as Captain Merrill Stubing, " Your Captain "; also playing Capt.

* Raw Nerve ( 1991 ) as Captain Gavin

Gavin was promoted to Captain and held his first command position as Commanding Officer of K Company of the 7th Infantry Regiment.

Gunner Nordquist opposite Mary Tyler Moore co-star Gavin MacLeod (" Captain Stubing ").

* Roger Moore as Captain Gavin Stewart

In the former, Aldo witnesses Luca Brasi's murder, kills Luca's assassin, plants the gun for Michael Corleone ( Joseph May ) to kill Sollozzo ( Richard Newman ) and Captain McCluskey ( Gavin Hammon ), helps Rocco Lampone ( Michael Dobson ) put the horse's head in Jack Woltz's bed, guards Don Corleone at the hospital, witnesses the death of Sonny Corleone ( James Caan ), kills Sonny's assassins, appears at the meeting of the Five Families and kills the Dons of the four other families during the baptism scene.

`` Ring Of Bright Water '' by Gavin Maxwell is just that -- a haunting, warmly personal chronicle of a man, an otter, and a remote cottage in the Scottish West Highlands.

* 1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer

* September 7 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and author ( b. 1914 )

The Reivers became so much of a nuisance to the Scottish and English government that in 1525 the then Archbishop of Glasgow, Gavin Dunbar, put a curse upon all the reivers of the borderlands.

* Gavin Douglas ( 1474 – 1522 ), Scottish poet and bishop

The main poets of this Scottish group were Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas.

Before the advent of printing in Scotland, writers such as Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Walter Kennedy and Gavin Douglas have been seen as leading a golden age in Scottish poetry.

* Gavin Hastings, Scottish rugby player took his sabbatical from Cambridge University at Auckland, and played for their rugby team.

Gavin Maxwell, the Scottish naturalist, travelled with Thesiger through the marshes in 1956 and published an account of their travels in his 1957 book A Reed Shaken by the Wind ( later republished under the title People of the Reeds ).

Gavin Douglas ( c. 1474 – September 1522 ) was a Scottish bishop, makar and translator.

* Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, edited by David F. C.

* The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas, edited by Priscilla J Bawcutt, Edinburgh, Blackwood for The Scottish Text Society, 1967 ( reprint 2003 )

In his search for information he applied to James IV of Scotland for a list of the Scottish kings and their annals ; but not even his friendship with Gavin Douglas could make him accept the historical theories of the latter, who traced the pedigree of the Scots down from the banished son of an Athenian king and Scota, daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

Gavin Paul Rae ( born 28 November 1977 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish international footballer, who currently plays for Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen.

As a schoolboy Gavin became the first player to captain a Scottish schoolboys side to win in England.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was seen as a major obstacle in the depiction of contemporary scenes, and the Scottish gentleman-artist and art dealer Gavin Hamilton preferred classical scenes as well as painting some based on his Eastern travels, where his European figures by-passed the problem by wearing Arab dress.

At 15, he lost part of two fingers to an otter named Edal while working for the Scottish naturalist Gavin Maxwell, who became his legal guardian in order that Nutkins could stay with him.

He also had her idealised in art ; the Scottish artist Gavin Hamilton was commissioned to draw her in chalk in the neo-classical style, whilst Hugh Douglas Hamilton painted a flattering portrait in a tiara.

* Gavin Brown ( politician ) ( born 1975 ), Member of the Scottish Parliament

He was Head Boy at Ashville College, Harrogate and attended Wadham College, Oxford, where his contemporaries included Kenneth Tynan, Lindsay Anderson and Gavin Lambert.

* Gavin Peacock, ex-professional footballer, attended Bexley Grammar School

John Reid attended cabinet meetings, but was not formally a member of the cabinet whereas Gavin Strang was given a seat in the cabinet when he held the position.

Brydon was educated at two independent schools: St. John's School in Porthcawl, which Eddie Izzard also attended, and Dumbarton House School in Swansea until the age of 14 ; this was followed by Porthcawl Comprehensive School, where he would meet Ruth Jones ( with whom he later worked in Gavin and Stacey ), he became a member of the school's youth theatre group.

Afterwards Gavin attended the United States Army Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia.

* Gavin Kenny attended Saint Davids CBS and has penned songs for Brian McFadden. Kenny still visits Artane and calls it his " spiritual birth place ".

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom attended the ceremony.

It starred Jane Parker as Norton, Peter Laurence as Glover, Christopher Lyons as Greenlees and Alan Archer as Pan, and was attended by both Willy Glover and Gavin Greenlees themselves.