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He was born at Inveresk, Scotland, near Edinburgh, the son of Major William Yule ( 1764 – 1839 ), translator of the Apothegms of Ali.
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Excavations at nearby Traprain Law, Dunsapie Hill, Duddingston and Inveresk had revealed relatively large settlements and it was supposed that these sites had, for some reason, been chosen in preference to the Castle Rock.
From 1748 until his death he was minister at Inveresk in Midlothian, and during this long career rose to high eminence in the Church of Scotland not only as leader of the moderate or " broad " Church section, but as Moderator of the General Assembly 1770 and Dean of the Chapel Royal in 1789.
And thus with blood and slaughter of the enemy, this chase was continued five miles in length westward from the place of their standing, which was in the fallow fields of Inveresk until Edinburgh Park and well nigh to the gates of the town itself and unto Leith, and in breadth nigh 4 miles, from the Firth sands up toward Dalkeith southward.
The site of the battle was most probably in the cultivated ground 0. 5 mile southeast of Inveresk church, just to the south of the main east-coast railway line.
John Hodgson, in a memoir published in 1831, held that Horsley was born in 1685, at Pinkie House, in the parish of Inveresk, Midlothian, and that his father was a Northumberland nonconformist, who had migrated to Scotland, but returned to England soon after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
When his son by one of his slaves, Robert Wedderburn, travelled to Inveresk to claim his kinship he was insultingly rejected by his father who gave him some small beer and a broken or bent sixpence.
His grandfather was hanged for involvement in the ' 45 and the family estate at Inveresk was confiscated.
The Milne Baronetcy, of Inveresk in the County of East Lothian, was a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.
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