In Whirlwind, we find Struan has become tai-pan following the ostensibly accidental death of his predecessor David MacStruan.

Bartlett is negotiating a deal with Struan's, but secretly plans to raid Struan ' with the knowledge he has obtained, and install himself as tai-pan.

The character also has several children who feature in the story, including Culum Struan, Winifred Dunross and Gordon Chen.

Thereafter Struan works only for himself ; he starts by practising piracy on Chinese junks and uses them to make dangerous opium runs up the China coast.

Brock, owner of the second largest of the trading companies, constantly vies to destroy Struan's company and reputation in an attempt both to exact revenge on Struan and to become the new " Tai-Pan " of Chinese trade.

* Jin-Qua, Chinese tea and opium trader, lends Dirk Struan " 40 Lac " ( about 1. 656 million Pounds sterling, or 8 million dollars in silver bullion ) to get out of debt to Tyler Brock.

Dirk Struan embodies Clavell's concept of the Hero whose vision for a proper form of cultural integration between East and West finds Dirk throwing off much of what he disliked of both Chinese and European society, yet fusing all that he does admire into a new way of living.

* note # 2 Dirk's Legacy did not specifically mention Scottish descent as a requirement, merely that the candidate be Christian, a kinsman, by blood or marriage, and of wholesome spirit-Jacques deVille is French and yet he was a member of the Inner Circle and was considered a contender ; Paul " Profitable " Choy is pure Chinese but he was inducted by the weak Linbar Struan to the Inner Circle when Choy married one of Linbar's daughters and converted to Christianity

* Paul " Profitable " Choy-the richest and most powerful Chinese businessman in Hong Kong, adversary to Andrew Gavallan, ally to Linbar Struan and witness to the death of David MacStruan.

Brock, owner of the second largest of the trading companies, constantly vies to destroy Struan's company and reputation in an attempt to both exact revenge on Struan and become the new " Tai-Pan " of Chinese trade.

The Struan family and their company Struan's ( also called the Noble House ) is a fictional family featuring heavily in many of the Asian Saga novels by writer James Clavell.

Struan donated the entire $ 50, 000 to Mercy Corps Scotland to assist with their work in Semipalatinsk.

In their papers, Dirk Struan wrote down a name for the boys.

Following the case it was suggested by Struan Robertson – editor of Out-Law. com – that Microsoft had little choice but to pursue the issue once it had come to light or they would have risked weakening their trademark.

In Taipan, Dirk Struan is loosely based on William Jardine while Robb Struan is loosely based on James Matheson.

Tai-Pan is the first book about the Struan family, although it is preceded by Shōgun in the Asian saga.

The fictional Struan family is based on the historical Jardine family of Jardine-Matheson fame, and hails from Ayr, Scotland.

He is the son of Dirk Struan, tai-pan of Struan's Trading Company.

His mother Tess Struan, and Gordon Chen urge Malcolm to return to Hong Kong to formally become tai-pan, but he is unable to travel due to a samurai ambush which nearly kills him, and leaves him severely wounded.

It is stated by Ian Dunross in " Noble House " that although the title of tai-pan was passed from one to another, Tess Struan maintained the real power of the Noble House until her death in 1917.

In Noble House, Struan is a member of Struan's inner circle and an aspirant to the office of tai-pan.

Dirk Lochlin Struan is the fictional main character of James Clavell's 1966 novel Tai-Pan.

The title comes from a Cantonese term that Clavell loosely translates as " supreme leader ", and Struan is the taipan or head of his own trading company in China, Struan's.

In Clavell's literary universe, moreover, Struan is presented as the Tai-Pan, and his company as the Noble House, the greatest private trading company in nineteenth-century Asia.

A Scotsman, " the devil Struan " is portrayed as a tough and resourceful rogue, endowed with vision and determination.

But Struan is almost always a little stronger, a little smarter, and a little richer than his nemesis.

The enmity between Struan and Brock is a prominent theme in Clavell's Asian Saga.

Struan ( Gaelic Sruthan, ' stream '), is a parish church, of early Christian origin and dedicated to St. Fillan, at the confluence of the Errochty Water and Garry rivers.

Only the family vault at Dunalastair is still in the possession of the family of Struan ; however, many modern properties have been added to the clan land.

The title Baron of Struan is still transferred through Dunalastair.

Although the novel features many characters, it is Dirk Struan and Tyler Brock, former shipmates and the owners of two massive ( fictional ) trading companies who are the main focal points of the story.

Struan is referred to throughout the novel as Tai-Pan, indicating his position as head of the largest of all the trading companies in Asia.

The purified rabbit IgG antivenom was developed in 1981 through a team effort led by Dr Struan Sutherland, head of immunology at the Australian Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne.

The antivenom was developed by a team headed by Struan Sutherland at the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories in Melbourne.

Developed by medical researcher Struan Sutherland in 1978, the object of pressure immobilization is to contain venom within a bitten limb and prevent it from moving through the lymphatic system to the vital organs.

He lived long enough for Linbar Struan to be flown to his location and be sworn in as the next tai-pan.

In the back-story as revealed in the novel, Struan begins his nautical adventures as a powder monkey on a King's ship at the battle of Trafalgar, and he remains bound to the sea for life.

* Horatio Sinclair, clerk to Dirk Struan, church fanatic and harbors incestuous desires for his sister Mary.

Angus Struan Carolus Robertson ( Scottish Gaelic: Aonghas Sruthan Teàrlach Mac Raibeart, born 28 September 1969 ) is the Scottish National Party ( SNP ) Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Moray and is the SNP's Parliamentary Group Leader and spokesperson for foreign affairs and defence.

In January 2007 Struan was decorated by the President of Kazakhstan with the " Shapagat " (" Mercy ") award for his humanitarian work in Semipalatinsk.

Struan also led a successful campaign for eight years in the European Parliament to impose an EU-wide ban on the import, export and trade in cat and dog fur.

Lochlin Struan became tai-pan for a second time after Kelly O ' Gorman, the fifth tai-pan, was killed as he tried to murder Tess Struan, and so Lochlin Struan became the sixth tai-pan, but totally under the thumb of Tess Struan, until his death in 1915.

It's not possible for him to ' remember ' ROSS LECHIE because he died long before Dunross was born ; we can only assume that Alastair's father, ROSS STRUAN, is another member of the Struan family and that he became tai-pan after ROSS LECHIE-after all, Robb Struan had two sons to follow him, Roddy and Sir Lochlin.

In 1841 when Struan's was on the brink of collapse, Dirk Struan received a loan of silver from the merchant Jin-qua in exchange for a series of favors.

Jardine House was prominently displayed in the 1988 NBC television miniseries Noble House as the headquarters for Struan ’ s.

The Face merely grunted during his appearance in " The End of the World ", communicated telepathically in " New Earth " and " Gridlock ", and spoke for the first and last time in the latter, and was voiced by Struan Rodger.