Edward also ordered John Balliol to relinquish control of the castles and burghs of Berwick, Jedburgh and Roxburgh.

Higgins also portrayed Holmes in the 1993 TV film Sherlock Holmes Returns, making him one of the only two actors to portray both Holmes and Moriarty on film, Richard Roxburgh being the other.

* In the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, an adaptation of the graphic novel by Alan Moore, Richard Roxburgh portrays the main villain named the Fantom, whose true identity was eventually revealed to be Professor James Moriarty, who also posed as the League's recruiter M ; with a blackmailed Dorian Gray as his agent, Moriarty acquired samples from the League with the intention of duplicating their powers for his own goals.

She also appeared as Ophelia in an acclaimed 1994 – 95 Company B production of Hamlet, directed by Neil Armfield, starring Rush and Richard Roxburgh.

The Clutha also provides irrigation for stone fruit orchards around Cromwell, Alexandra, and Roxburgh, which provide apples, apricots, nectarines, | cherries, and peaches.

Roxburgh (), also known as Rosbroch, is a village, civil parish and now-destroyed royal burgh.

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Several amateurs also worked alongside from other civil services and they were assisted by professional botanists such as Joseph Dalton Hooker ( 1817 – 1911 ), John Gerard Koenig ( 1728 – 1785 ), Robert Wight ( 1796 – 1872 ), Nathaniel Wallich ( 1786 – 1854 ) and William Roxburgh ( 1751 – 1815 ), the Father of Indian Botany.

She has also inspired contemporary composers to write for her, including Richard Rodney Bennett, Antal Dorati, Carl Davis, Chaminade, Frank Martin, Malcolm Arnold, Jindrich Feld, Edwin Roxburgh, Robert Saxton, Ole Schmidt, Robert Simpson and Cecilia McDowall.

Up until 2006, the college also possessed additional capacity in Roxburgh House, Wrexham, however the majority of the building was handed back to the vendor due to lease expiration.

In 2003, Rocket Venues took over the Roxy ( also sometimes known as the Demarco Roxy ) Art House, a converted church on the corner of Roxburgh Place and Drummond Street on the South Side of Edinburgh, previously used by the Pleasance Theatre ( Pleasance Over-the-Road ).

In addition to regular books, articles and essays, in recent years he has also written feature films, including The Man Who Sued God, starring Billy Connolly and Judy Davis, and Passion, a film about Percy Grainger starring Richard Roxburgh.

He has also entered paintings to the Archibald Prize of singer Ben Lee, fashion identity Peter Morrissey and actor Richard Roxburgh

Roxburgh appeared as three iconic characters over the next three years: he played Sherlock Holmes in 2002's The Hound of the Baskervilles, Holmes's nemesis Professor Moriarty in 2003's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and Count Dracula in 2004's Van Helsing.

Most of Roxburgh Park's fame came with widely screened TV commercials throughout the mid-1990s, presenting Roxburgh Park's avowed virtues as a planned community with a balance of residential, industrial and reserves ( part of the Shankland Reserve is in the south of Roxburgh Park ), as well as community services and access to transport.

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For the movie adaptation, Boron is voiced by Richard Roxburgh and Barran by Deborra-Lee Furness.

In August 1436, James failed humiliatingly in his siege of Roxburgh Castle and then faced an ineffective attempt by Sir Robert Graham to arrest him at a general council.

When Edward I invaded Scotland he brought with him the siege capabilities which had evolved south of the border: Edinburgh Castle fell within three days, and Roxburgh, Jedburgh, Dunbar, Stirling, Lanark and Dumbarton castles surrendered to the king.

Indeed, early cannons could be quite dangerous to their own soldiers ; James II of Scotland was killed besieging Roxburgh Castle in 1460 when one of his cannons, called " Lion ", exploded next to him.

His ambitions to increase Scotland's standing saw him besiege Roxburgh Castle in 1460, one of the last Scottish castles still held by the English after the Wars of Independence.

In 1638, the king summoned him, together with Traquair and Roxburgh, to London, but he refused to be won over, warned Charles against his despotic ecclesiastical policy, and showed great hostility towards William Laud.

There were still Louels in Scotland on the Scottish Marches in the Royal Burgh of Roxburgh when Edward Longshanks, King of England, ordered the nobility and gentry in Scotland to swear an oath of allegiance to him in the Ragman Roll in 1291.

He marched along the east coast intending to cut off Montrose from the Highlands, but learned ( possibly from the turncoat Earls of Home and Roxburgh ) of Montrose's position and strength, and turned south to intercept him.

He returned to football full-time in 1986 when Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh appointed him as assistant manager.

Andy Roxburgh gave him his debut on 14 October 1987 in the 2 – 0 UEFA European Championship qualifier victory over Belgium at Hampden Park.

When the treaty arranging the marriage of Margaret and Eric was signed at Roxburgh on 25 July 1281, Alexander III's younger son David had already died in June 1281, leaving the King of Scots with only one legitimate son, Alexander.

During the 12th and 13th centuries, Perth was one of the richest trading burghs in the kingdom ( along with such places as North Berwick, Aberdeen and Roxburgh ), residence of numerous craftsmen, organised into guilds ( e. g. the Hammermen or Glovers ).

He was born in the village of Ancrum, near Jedburgh, in the County of Roxburgh, Scotland, one of seven children of the Reverend John Livingston, a lineal descendant of the fourth Lord Livingston, ancestor of the earls of Linlithgow and Callendar, a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was sent into exile in 1663 due to his resistance to attempts to turn the Presbyterian national church into an Episcopalian institution.

But the king's son came on foot with one knight only to Carlisle, while his father scarce escaped through woods and passes to Roxburgh.

Northumberland was appointed joint warden with the earl of Huntingdon of both marches for one year, during which time, although suffering defeat by the Earl of Angus at the Battle of Piperdean, he was able to repel a siege on Roxburgh by James I of Scotland.

Borders was divided into four districts, one of which was named Roxburgh.

* Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale is one of the lieutenancy areas of Scotland.

Catherine Roxburgh Carswell ( née Macfarlane ; 27 March 1879 – 18 February 1946 ) was a Scottish author, biographer and journalist, now known as one of the few women who took part in the Scottish Renaissance.

Kelso Abbey, which was situated in sight of Roxburgh Castle across the Tweed water, soon grew to be one of the wealthiest and grandest in Scotland, with much of its income coming from its vast estates in the Border country.

Today Haddington is a small town with a population of less than 9, 000, although at one time it was the fourth biggest city in Scotland after Aberdeen, Roxburgh and Edinburgh.

When the constituency was abolished, as a result of the Fifth Periodical Review, Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk was created, and first used in the 2005 general election, as one of six constituencies covering the Dumfries and Galloway, Scottish Borders, and South Lanarkshire council areas.

Alexander was born at Roxburgh, the only son of Alexander II by his second wife Marie de Coucy.

By 1313, only Stirling, Roxburgh, Edinburgh and Berwick castles were held by the English.

Much of what is now Roxburgh Park was formerly used as agricultural land, with Roxburgh Park only developed by the Urban Land Corporation in 1992 ( not unlike the new towns in green wedges of Britain ).

The race was won by Frank Coad and John Roxburgh in a Vauxhall Cresta, the only Vauxhall in a field of 45 cars.

* Van Helsing ( 2004 ) – action film only loosely connected to the original Dracula ; Richard Roxburgh is Dracula.