Ring Of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell.

`` 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.

Former HQ of The Island of Soay Shark Fisheries Ltd, started-and finished-by Gavin Maxwell

In 1946, author Gavin Maxwell bought the island and established a factory to process shark oil from basking sharks.

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

Classical acts to have an album nominated have included Sir John Tavener, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Gavin Bryars and Nicholas Maw.

* September 6 – Gavin Maxwell, naturalist and author

The latter journey is also covered by his travelling companion, Gavin Maxwell, in A Reed Shaken by the Wind – a Journey through the Unexplored Marshlands of Iraq ( Longman, 1959 ).

* Gavin Maxwell ( 1914 – 1969 )-naturalist, writer

Gavin Maxwell wrote about how his parents would scare him and other children to behave themselves when Meinertzhagen visited with "... remember ... he has killed people with his bare hands ..."

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Former HQ of The Island of Soay, Skye | Soay Shark Fisheries Ltd, started-and finished-by Gavin Maxwell.

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She also held an unrequited passion for Gavin Maxwell.

Married Aymer Edward Maxwell and was the mother of author and naturalist Gavin Maxwell.

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.

Senior Allied officers who assisted the author included General Maxwell D. Taylor, Lieutenant General James M. Gavin, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick E. Morgan and General Sir Richard Nelson Gale.

* Gavin Maxwell ( 1914 – 1969 )

The retreat of the author Gavin Maxwell ( known as Camusfeàrna in his books ) is about south west of Glenelg.

His children are named Jake and Payton ( from his first marriage ) and Gavin Maxwell and Sarah ( from his second marriage ).

Gavin Maxwell, who fished for basking sharks nearby in 1947, recorded a mass sighting of Basking Sharks.

McKenna has also been responsible for helping create and furnish the Gavin Maxwell museum on Eilean Bàn, the last island home of Maxwell, an author and naturalist, most famous for his book Ring of Bright Water, on which the film of the same name was based.

* 1977 – Gavin Rae, Scottish footballer

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.

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 Hamilton, Captain of Scottish Saltires attended Hurstmere Foundation School

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

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

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

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 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.

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