He was the son of a Scottish father and an American Jewish mother, long widowed, with whom he lived in a comfortable home in Flushing.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

In Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian, for example, the heroine, Jeanie Deans, a Scottish Presbyterian, writes to her father about the church situation she has found in England ( bold added ):

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

His wife was born to a German American father and a mother with both Scottish and Irish ancestry.

Politicians with Scottish connections continued to play a prominent part in UK political life, with Prime Ministers including the Conservatives Harold Macmillan ( whose father was Scottish ) from 1955 – 57 and Alec Douglas-Home from 1963-64.

In 1045, Duncan's father Crínán of Dunkeld ( a scion of the Scottish branch of the Cenel Conaill and Hereditary Abbot of Iona ) was killed in a battle between two Scottish armies.

His father James was a storekeeper, the son of Scottish crofters who had immigrated to Australia in the mid-1850s in the wake of the Victorian gold rush.

From his mother, he inherited the Gaelic Earldom of Carrick, and through his father a Royal lineage that would give him a claim to the Scottish throne.

In August 1296, Bruce and his father swore fealty to Edward I of England at Berwick-upon-Tweed, but in breach of this oath, which had been renewed at Carlisle, the younger Robert supported the Scottish revolt against King Edward in the following year.

His father was James Waite Dickson, a Scottish artist, astronomer and linguist.

His mother, intensely religious, was an evangelical of Scottish Episcopal origins, and his father joined the Church of England, having been a Presbyterian when he first settled in Liverpool.

* July 27 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria invades Scotland to support Malcolm Canmore against Macbeth, who usurped the Scottish throne from Malcolm's father, King Duncan.

Malcolm Canmore was an exile at Edward's court after Macbeth killed his father, Duncan I, and seized the Scottish throne.

Ruby was of English and Scottish ancestry, by her father and mother, respectively.

His father was Jewish and had converted to the Russian Orthodox religion ; his mother was of Scottish ancestry.

His father, an electrician and amateur footballer in the lower leagues, named him in honour of Scottish striker Denis Law.

Born into a family of British nobility as The Honourable Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, she became Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon when her father inherited the Scottish Earldom of Strathmore and Kinghorne in 1904.

Queen Elizabeth's coat of arms was the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom ( in either the English or the Scottish version ) impaled with the arms of her father, the Earl of Strathmore ; the latter being: 1st and 4th quarters, Argent, a lion rampant Azure, armed and langued Gules, within a double tressure flory-counter-flory of the second ( Lyon ); 2nd and 3rd quarters, Ermine, three bows stringed paleways proper ( Bowes ).

From his mother he inherited significant lands in Galloway and claim to Lordship over the Gallovidians, as well as various English and Scottish estates of the Huntingdon inheritance ; from his father he inherited large estates in England and France, such as Hitchin, in Hertfordshire.

Trocchi was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father.

William Niven, David's father, was of Scottish descent ; his paternal grandfather, David Graham Niven, ( 1811 – 1884 ) was from St. Martins, a village in Perthshire.

He was a member of Harmony lodge, No. 12, AF & AM, Scottish Rite ; ;

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

Thomas Wallace was of Scottish ancestry.

On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.

He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, the only son of the Scottish king William the Lion and Ermengarde of Beaumont.

Alexander Anderson ( c. 1592, Aberdeen – c. 1620, Paris ) was a Scottish mathematician.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.

Sir Alexander Fleming, FRSE, FRS, FRCS ( Eng ) ( 6 August 188111 March 1955 ) was a Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist.

The Trust was funded by a gift of $ 10 million ( a then unprecedented sum: at the time, total government assistance to all four Scottish universities was about £ 50, 000 a year ) and its aim was to improve and extend the opportunities for scientific research in the Scottish universities and to enable the deserving and qualified youth of Scotland to attend a university.

Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey.

Their first hit was Brigadoon ( 1947 ), a romantic fantasy set in a mystical Scottish village, directed by Robert Lewis.

This was a collaborative project involving The Scottish Parliament, International Teledemocracy Centre and the Bundestag ‘ Online Services Department ’.

The centre was formed by the mass of Dutch, German, Protestant Swiss and Scottish infantry – perhaps 30, 000 men – facing Offus and Ramillies.

Calvin's follower John Knox brought Presbyterianism to Scotland when the Scottish church was reformed in 1560.

In the then Victorian Colony ( now State of Victoria in Australia ), the ( Royal ) Victorian Bowling Association was formed in 1880 and The Scottish Bowling Association was established in 1892, although there had been a failed attempt in 1848 by 200 Scottish clubs.

* 1948 – Walter Smith, Scottish football manager

* 1931 – Ally MacLeod, Scottish footballer and manager ( d. 2004 )

* 1957 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish football player and manager

* 1956 – George Burley, Scottish footballer and manager

* John Brown ( footballer born 1962 ), Scottish association football player and manager

Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE ( born 4 March 1951 ) is a Scottish former footballer and manager.

Dalglish went on to be appointed Director of Football at Celtic in 1999, and later manager, where he won the Scottish League Cup before an acrimonious departure the following year.

Barnes was sacked in February 2000 and Dalglish was appointed manager, and he guided them to the Scottish League Cup final where they beat Aberdeen 2 – 0 at Hampden Park, and he left the club shortly thereafter.

* 1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer and manager

* 1909 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and manager ( d. 1994 )

* 1948 – Alex MacDonald, Scottish footballer and football manager

* 1950 – Jim Jefferies, Scottish football manager

* 17-Sammy Kean, 85, Scottish football player and manager.

* 1913 – Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and manager ( d. 1981 )

* 1956 – Bill Struth, Scottish football manager ( b. 1875 )

** Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and football manager

* February 9 – Gordon Strachan, Scottish footballer and manager

* February 26 – Ally McLeod, Scottish football manager

** Walter Smith, Scottish football manager

** Bill Shankly, Scottish football manager ( d. 1981 )

* June 3 – George Burley, Scottish football manager

* October 20 – James Edward McGrory, Scottish football player and manager ( b. 1904 )

* April 25 – Willie Maley, Scottish football player and manager ( d. 1958 )

Sir Alexander Chapman " Alex " Ferguson, ( born 31 December 1941 ) is a Scottish football manager and former player who has managed Manchester United since 1986.