Lynchehaun is said to have returned to Achill on two occasions, once in disguise as an American tourist, and eventually died in Girvan, Scotland, in 1937.

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

One of the few, if not the only, times he left Scotland was towards the end of his life, when he returned to Ireland to found the monastery at Durrow.

By 1632, Acadia was returned from Scotland to France under the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and the Port Royale settlement was moved to the site of nearby present-day Annapolis Royal.

When Mary returned to Scotland in 1561 to take up the reins of power, the country had an established Protestant church and was run by a council of Protestant nobles supported by Elizabeth.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

The two ruled Scotland until two of Edmund's younger brothers returned from exile in England, again with English military backing.

When Scotland finally paid the ransom in 1424, James, aged 32, returned with his English bride determined to assert this authority.

In 1559 John Knox returned from ministering in Geneva to lead the Calvinism | Calvinist reformation in Scotland

* 1996 – Stone of Scone is returned to Scotland.

Watt travelled to London to study instrument-making for a year, then returned to Scotland, settling in the major commercial city of Glasgow intent on setting up his own instrument-making business.

This Malcolm refused to accept, and returned immediately to Scotland.

It's only once he arrived in Newcastle that he felt he had returned to a civilized part of the world and the inhabitable face of the Earth, Scotland and the far north of England being " wild, bare and never visited by the sun in winter ".

Afterward, he returned to the co-op, then worked as, among other things, a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland, Archie Brennan.

He returned to Scotland and, in September 1832, died ( under unexplained circumstances ) at Abbotsford, the home he had designed and had built, near Melrose in the Scottish Borders.

The high point in a British General Elections thus far was when the SNP polled almost a third of all votes in Scotland at the October 1974 general election and returned 11 MPs to Westminster, to date the most MPs it has had, although its representation was reduced significantly in the 1979 general election.

Scrooge became rich in the Klondike and returned to Scotland in 1902 as a billionaire.

When Hugh returned to Scotland he found out that his contract had some small print letters that his failing sight did not allow him to see.

In 1902 Scrooge McDuck returned to Scotland to fetch Hortense and their sister Matilda McDuck.

In 1902 Scrooge returned to Scotland and took both of his sisters with him to go to America.

While William was in Normandy, Edgar the Ætheling returned to Scotland from Flanders.

King Edward I of England returned from the Eighth Crusade to take the throne and was able to subjugate Wales by the end of the decade ; Scotland quelled an uprising on the Isle of Man, in doing so confirming the concession of that territory made in 1266 by Norway in the Treaty of Perth.

He returned to Scotland in 1544, but the timing of his return was unfortunate.

In summer 1548, the galleys returned to Scotland to scout for English ships.

The Court of Sessions of Scotland ruled against him, saying that chattel slavery was not recognised under the law of Scotland, and slaves could seek court protection to leave a master or avoid being forcibly removed from Scotland to be returned to slavery in the colonies.

There are two officers, the senior being the Astronomer Royal dating from 22 June 1675 ; the second is the Astronomer Royal for Scotland dating from 1834.

Through the 1950s and into the 1960s the Liberals survived only because a handful of constituencies in rural Scotland and Wales clung to their Liberal traditions, whilst in two English towns, Bolton and Huddersfield, local Liberals and Conservatives agreed to each contest only one of the town's two seats.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert first visited Scotland in 1842, five years after her accession and two years after their marriage.

Outside of America, the first deliberate attempts to create a " Pan-Celtic music " were made by the Breton Taldir Jaffrennou, having translated songs from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales into Breton between the two world wars.

For the first two years of the Commonwealth, the Rump faced economic depression and the risk of invasion from Scotland and Ireland.

Victorian historians often referred to the tribe as the Damnonii, which is also the name of another Celtic people from lowland Scotland, although there are no known links between the two populations.

Dobbingstone Burn, Scotland — This photo illustrates two different types of erosion affecting the same place.

This match, played at Hamilton Crescent in Scotland, is viewed as the first official international football match because the two teams were independently selected and operated, rather than being the work of a single football association.

Another extravagant scheme of Alberoni's was the plotted restoration of the Stuarts to the British throne in two Jacobite expeditions to Scotland in the spring of 1719.

He represented Aberdeenshire in the Parliament of Scotland of 1669 and in the following assemblies, during his first session strongly opposing the projected union of the two legislatures.

The two countries had shared a monarch since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, when King James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne from his double first cousin twice removed, Queen Elizabeth I.

It was Máel Coluim III, who acquired the nickname " Canmore " ( Cenn Mór, " Great Chief "), which he passed to his successors and who did most to create the Dunkeld dynasty that ruled Scotland for the following two centuries.

By the 18th century there were five universities in Scotland, at Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews and King's and Marischial Colleges in Aberdeen, compared with only two in England.

Support in Scotland was critical to Labour's overall electoral fortunes as without Scottish MPs it would have gained only two UK electoral victories in the 20th century ( 1945 and 1966 ).

The Electoral success of New Labour in 1997, which would be led by two Prime Ministers with Scottish connections, Tony Blair ( who was brought up in Scotland ) from 1997 to 2007 and Gordon Brown from 2007 – 10, opened the way for constitutional change.

* Alec Finlay has published two booklets on circle poem letterboxing: Isles, Arcs & Ways ( Isle of Thanet, England, 2005 ), ISBN 19044770404 ; and Hill of Streams ( Cairnhead, Scotland, 2008 ).

Libya refused to extradite the two accused to the U. S. or to Scotland.

The two visited the mountains of Scotland together, and found in different locations clear evidence of ancient glacial action.

The UK is a unitary state formed initially by the merger of two independent kingdoms, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, but the Treaty of Union ( 1707 ) that set out the agreed terms has ensured the continuation of distinct features of each state, including separate legal systems and separate national churches.

In 1482 Richard recaptured Berwick-upon-Tweed from the Kingdom of Scotland, the last time that the Royal Burgh would change hands between the two realms.

He then joined the Royal Navy during which time he got two tattoos, of which his official website says " unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous — his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong commitments: his family and Scotland.