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

* 1968 – Stuart Murdoch, Scottish singer-songwriter ( Belle & Sebastian )

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

Scottish brochs at the start of the new millennium, 11-31 in Turner, Val E, Nicholson, Rebecca A, Dockrill, S J & Bond, Julie M ( eds.

Ownership has changed many times, past owners including the Scottish publisher A & C Black, Horace Everett Hooper, Sears Roebuck and William Benton.

* 1991 & ndash: Declan Gallagher, Scottish footballer

In April 2006, Scottish & Newcastle plc announced that it had agreed to acquire the Foster ’ s brand in Europe ( including Turkey ), the Russian Federation and other countries in the Commonwealth of Independent States from Foster ’ s Group Limited for approximately £ 309 million.

Scottish & Newcastle launched Foster's Twist, a beer with a hint of citrus that is marketed as a refreshing alternative to other heavier beers and Premium Packaged Spirits such as Smirnoff Ice.

King James I & VI as he was styled became the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain, although it was merely a union of the English and Scottish crowns, and both countries remained separate political entities until 1707.

* Scottish History Online & Pictish Pages

The performers were Jimmy Shand and band, Ian Powrie and his band, Scottish country dancers: Dixie Ingram and the Dixie Ingram Dancers, Joe Gordon Folk Four, James Urquhart, Ann & Laura Brand, Moira Anderson & Kenneth McKellar.

* John Walker ( grocer ) ( 1805 – 1857 ), Scottish founder of John Walker & Sons and namesake of the Johnnie Walker whisky brand

William SmallThe nature of the group was to change significantly with the move to Birmingham in 1765 of the Scottish physician William Small, who had been Professor of Natural Philosophy at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The Wetherspoons pub chain reported in June 2009 that profits were at the top end of expectations ; however, Scottish & Newcastle's takeover by Carlsberg and Heineken was reported in January 2008 as partly the result of its weakness following falling sales due to the ban.

For example the same reel Rakish Paddy is notated in 2 / 2 time with an alla breve ( cut time ) Image: mensural proportion1. gif time signature in Miles Krassen, O ' Neill's Music of Ireland, New & Revisited, p. 158, ( 1976 ), whereas in 4 / 4 time in Robin Williamson, English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Fiddle Tunes, p. 69, ( 1976 ), each measure in both cases spanning the same part of the melody.

* Noble, Gordon ; Poller, Tessa & Verrill, Lucy ( 2008 ) Scottish Odysseys: The Archaeology of Islands.

* August 20 – Dudley D. Watkins, Scottish illustrator for D. C. Thomson & Co. Best known for Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Dandy, The Beano, and The Topper.

** Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish Guitarist ( Paul McCartney & Wings ) ( b. 1953 )

* August 18 – Scottish adventurer Gregor MacGregor issues a £ 300, 000 loan with 2. 5 % interest through the London bank of Thomas Jenkins & Company for the fictitious Central American republic of Poyais.

Newcastle Brown Ale became a brand of Scottish & Newcastle after the merger of Scottish Brewers with Newcastle Breweries in 1960 where it became a flagship brand alongside McEwan's Export and Younger's Tartan Special.

Scottish and Newcastle announced closure of the Tyne Brewery on 22 April 2004, in order to consolidate the brewing of beer and ale in the Federation Brewery site in Dunston, Gateshead, which was to pass to S & N with their £ 7. 2m purchase of the Federation Brewery.

The merger of Newcastle Breweries with Scottish Brewers afforded the beer national distribution, and United Kingdom sales peaked by the early 1970s.

By 1997 Scottish and Newcastle claimed that it was the most widely distributed alcoholic product in both pubs and off licences in the country.

Heineken bought Scottish & Newcastle in a joint deal with Carlsberg in 2008.

On 13 October 2009 it was announced by Scottish & Newcastle that it planned to close the Dunston brewery in 2010, moving production of Brown Ale to the John Smiths Brewery in Tadcaster also.

* Good Company: The Story of Scottish and Newcastle, Berry Ritchie and Susannah May, James & James ( Publishers ) Ltd ( Sep 1999 ), ISBN 0-907383-08-4

The combined forces of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated the Royalists commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle.

Alnwick town lies adjacent to the A1, the main national north / south trunk road, providing easy access to Newcastle upon Tyne ( south ) and to the Scottish capital Edinburgh ( north ).

The ferry to Gothenburg, Sweden, from " Newcastle " ( actually North Shields ) in northern England ( currently run by the Danish company DFDS Seaways ), ceased at the end of October 2006 " DFDS scraps Newcastle-Gothenburg line ", The Local, 7 September 2006: " Danish shipping company DFDS Seaways is to scrap the only passenger ferry route between Sweden and Britain, with the axing of the Gothenburg-Newcastle route at thekey route for Scottish tourist traffic from Sweden and Norway.

Courage were taken over by Scottish & Newcastle in 1995, by which time John Smith's was the highest selling ale brand in the country.

By 1967, after a series of acquisitions, John Smith's was the largest regional brewer in the country after Scottish & Newcastle, and had a market capitalization of £ 29. 4 million, or £ 415 million in 2010 prices, with family interests still holding around 10 per cent of the company at this time.

In mid 2007, Scottish & Newcastle moved production of John Smith's Cask from Tadcaster to Burtonwood near Warrington, and production of John Smith's Magnet ( 4 per cent ABV ) to Camerons Brewery of Hartlepool.

Scottish & Newcastle used the John Smith's Brewery to brew many of its ale brands, including Courage Best Bitter, Director's and Russian Imperial Stout, Webster's Yorkshire Bitter and Green Label, Theakston Best Bitter and McEwan's Export.

Scottish & Newcastle replied that " To suggest we all live in a stereotyped world where everyone is tanned, has white teeth and is healthy is simply misleading.

In the first Scottish war Fairfax had commanded a regiment in the king's army ; then on the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642 he became commander of the parliamentary forces in Yorkshire, with Newcastle as his opponent.

From there he took Newcastle with ease putting pressure on the King to come to a treaty with the Scottish Covenanters.

* De Keersmaeker owned by Scottish & Newcastle, better known by its brand name Mort Subite ( Sweetened – except Gueuze Fond ), Kobbegem

He undertook the Scottish agency for John Murray and other London publishers, and gradually drifted into publishing on his own account, moving in 1816 to Princes Street.

The institution gradually grew both in terms of student numbers and the number of courses it offered, and it ultimately became known as the Scottish College of Textiles in 1968.

Over the years the settlers, surrounded by the hostile Catholic Irish, gradually cast off their separate English / Welsh and Scottish roots, becoming British in the process, as a means of emphasising their ' otherness ' from their Gaelic neighbours ( Marshall, T., p. 31 ).

At the same time as the club was enjoying a high standing Scottish football, McLean was gradually building the club ’ s reputation in Europe, with wins over sides like AS Monaco, Borussia Mönchengladbach, PSV Eindhoven, Anderlecht and Werder Bremen.