The British Linen Company, established in 1746, was the largest firm in the Scottish linen industry in the 18th century, exporting linen to England and America.

It was invented by the Scottish engineer William Murdoch in the 19th century and was later developed by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company.

* August 18 – Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £ 300, 000 loan with 2. 5 % interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais.

* Good Company: The Story of Scottish and Newcastle, Berry Ritchie and Susannah May, James & James ( Publishers ) Ltd ( Sep 1999 ), ISBN 0-907383-08-4

It originated as the Buick Auto-Vim and Power Company in 1899, an independent internal combustion engine and motor-car manufacturer, and was later incorporated as the Buick Motor Company on May 19, 1903, by Scottish born David Dunbar Buick in Detroit, Michigan.

Scottish Opera, Welsh National Opera and many of the other British opera companies have mounted productions, as did the reconstituted D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company between 1990 and its closure in 2003.

He was good enough to earn employment with the Carl Rosa Opera Company and the Scottish Orchestra ( forerunner of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra ) although his salary was only just enough to live on.

* D. and W. Henderson and Company, a former Scottish shipbuilding company

Shortly after De la Cierva's success with the C. 6, Cierva accepted an offer from Scottish industrialist James G. Weir to establish the Cierva Autogiro Company in England, following a demonstration of the C. 6 before the British Air Ministry at RAE Farnborough, on 20 October 1925.

* Dübs and Company, a Scottish steam locomotive works, founded by Henry Dübs

Around 1850, two enterprising Scottish brother, Alexander and Thomas Gimmel, organized the Hampshire and Baltimore Coal Company.

A strong economic division between later Scandinavian immigrant farmers and the earlier English and Scottish war veterans who retained control of the principal businesses of the city center, the banks, and the increasingly important Otter Tail Power Company persisted for decades until several generations of ethnic intermarriage and continuing inward and outward migration largely erased the initially strong divisions of class and power along ethnic lines.

The borough was named in 1889 for Cornelius Campbell, the first superintendent of the Glenwood Coal Company ( glen is the Scottish word for valley ), which mined in that area.

In 1880, Canadian-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur ( 1846 – 1912 ), representing the Scottish Carolina Timber and Land Company, arrived in Newport with ambitious plans to log the Pigeon valley.

After working as a clerk at the British Steamship Company in the City of London, he joined the London Scottish Regiment in 1909 and was among the first of Territorial Army to fight in World War I.

* 75th Company — The Toronto Scottish Regiment ( Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's Own )

Both men were of Scottish ancestry, graduates of MIT and had worked for the aircraft manufacturer Glenn L. Martin Company.

Scottish immigrant Alexander Winton, owner of the Winton Bicycle Company, turned from bicycle production to an experimental single-cylinder automobile before starting his car company.

He chose Galt in honour of the Scottish novelist and Commissioner of the Canada Company, John Galt.

The London Midland & Scottish Railway Company continued to exist as a legal entity for nearly two years after Nationalisation, being formally wound up on 23 December 1949.

The Matador Land and Cattle Company was founded in 1882 by Scottish investors, whose acquisition included 2. 5 million acres in four Texas counties.

In Scottish Gaelic, the month is known as either ( An ) Cèitean or a ' Mhàigh, and the festival is known as Latha Bealltainn or simply Bealltainn.

In Scottish Mythology a similar creature is known as the Bean nighe or ban nigheachain ( little washerwoman ) or nigheag na h-àth ( little washer at the ford ).

These styles are known because of the importance of Irish and Scottish people in the English speaking world, especially in the United States, where they had a profound impact on American music, particularly bluegrass and country music.

Islanders ' accents retain elements passed down from English, Scottish, and Welsh settlers ( among others ) in a language variety known as Cayman Creole.

Cape Breton is well known for its traditional fiddle music, which was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

David Hume ( 25 August 1776 ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

They are known locally as Hearts and Hibs and both teams currently play in the Scottish Premier League.

By the 1930s, the five-line cinquain verse form became widely known in the poetry of the Scottish poet William Soutar.

In the early 20th century there was a new surge of activity in Scottish literature, influenced by modernism and resurgent nationalism, known as the Scottish Renaissance.

The number of Scottish seats represented by Unionists ( known as Conservatives from 1965 onwards ) went into steady decline from 1959 onwards, until it fell to zero in 1997.

The introduction in 1989 by the Thatcher-led Conservative government of the Community Charge ( widely known as the Poll Tax ), one year before the rest of the United Kingdom, contributed to a growing movement for a return to direct Scottish control over domestic affairs.

Learners who wish to use purportedly correct English are in fact faced with the dual standard of American English and British English, and other less known standard Englishes ( including Australian, Scottish and Canadian ).

John Napier of Merchiston ( 1550 – 4 April 1617 ) – also signed as Neper, Nepair – named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer and astrologer.

By the following year Dalglish was a full professional and a regular member of the highly-rated Celtic reserve team that became known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its having a large number of future Scottish internationals, including Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, and David Hay.

Although there is no strict size definition, a small loch is often known as a lochan ( so spelled also in Scottish Gaelic ; in Irish it is spelled lochán ).

Until the early 1970s there was large apiary which was well known in the region and has lived on in the Scottish country dance " The Bees of Maggieknockater ".

The island is known in Scottish Gaelic as Eilean a ' Phrionnsa ( lit.

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

In the English-speaking world, the stereotyped Scottish rolled is well known.

Robert I ( 11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329 ), popularly known as Robert the Bruce ( Medieval Gaelic: Roibert a Briuis ; modern Scottish Gaelic: Raibeart Bruis ; Norman French: Robert de Brus or Robert de Bruys ), was King of Scots from 25 March 1306, until his death in 1329.

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.