His family, like many Wallaces, claimed a connection to William Wallace, a Scottish patriot and leader during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the 13th century.

Thomas Reid, the eighteenth-century founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense, realised that sensation was composed of a set of data transfers but declared that there is still a direct connection between perception and the world.

In fact, most Presbyterians found in England can trace a Scottish connection, and the Presbyterian denomination was also taken to North America mostly by Scots and Scots-Irish immigrants.

In the Balkans, Romantic views of a connection with classical Greece, which inspired Philhellenism infused the Greek War of Independence ( 1821-1832 ), in which the Scottish Romantic poet Lord Byron was mortally wounded.

Scott's novels were certainly influential in the making of the Victorian craze for all things Scottish among British royalty, who were anxious to claim legitimacy through their rather attenuated historical connection with the royal house of Stuart.

This grouping of " neo-fundamentalists " have their roots within the camp of the former high-profile Labour Party MP Jim Sillars who left Labour to form the short-lived Scottish Labour Party in 1976 ( the party had no connection with the UK Labour Party or the current Scottish Labour group in the Scottish Parliament ).

He also recognized the importance of the cell nucleus, discovered in 1831 by the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, and sensed its connection with cell division.

* Francis James Child collected fourteen variants in The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, but the summary of Child Ballad 39A is considered to be the earliest ( Another Child ballad, Burd Ellen and Young Tamlane has no connection with this ballad except for the similarity of the heroes ' names.

His father was a gentleman usher at the English court ( as he had been at the Scottish court from 1590 ) and William, in a visit to London in 1606, describes the festivities in connection with the visit of the king of Denmark.

His language is a supple, flowing and concise Scots that clearly shows he knew Latin, while scenes are usually given a deftly evocative Scottish setting which can only have come from close connection and observation.

The relations between the Scottish Conservatives with the largely working-class Orange Order also became problematic because of the perceived aristocratic connection of the former, but it was the Troubles in Northern Ireland that created more concrete problems.

On one level, there was the residual perception of a connection that many mainstream Protestant voters associated with the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland — a perception that is unfair to a large extent since the Scottish Orange Order has dealt more stringently with members associating with Northern Irish paramilitaries than its Irish equivalent.

The Scottish court in the Netherlands was a special sitting of the High Court of Justiciary set up under Scots law in a former United States Air Force base called Camp Zeist in Utrecht, in the Netherlands, for the trial of two Libyans charged with 270 counts of murder in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988.

The town has an indirect connection to Scottish settlement in New Zealand ; the Reverend Norman McLeod emigrated to Pictou from Scotland some years after the Hector but eventually re-settled with his parishioners at St. Ann's on Cape Breton Island.

The reivers were both English and Scottish and raided both sides of the border impartially, so long as the people they raided had no powerful protectors and no connection to their own kin.

Initially considered to be European rather than English or Scottish, after the First World War it became more prevalent in England in badges of coats relating to the Royal Air Force, or the arms of those with some RAF connection.

Thomson, de la Haye and three associates started Caledonian Airways from scratch with an initial investment of £ 54, 000 raised from institutional investors on both sides of the Atlantic, many of which had a " Scottish connection ".

It also publishes an academic journal ( the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society ) and every four years awards the Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize to an outstanding mathematician with a Scottish connection.

The new king did not, however, as was hoped, cease to exact the fines on recusants ; and the general dissatisfaction felt by the Roman Catholics gave rise to the " Bye plot ," or " Watson's plot ," in which connection this priest's name is best known, and to its sequel the Main Plot ; Watson discussed the grievances of his co-religionists with another priest, William Clark, with Sir Griffin Markham and Anthony Copley, and with a disappointed Protestant courtier, George Brooke ; they took another Protestant, Thomas Grey, 15th Baron Grey de Wilton, into their confidence, and following Scottish precedents it was arranged that James should be surprised and seized, while they talked loudly about capturing the Tower of London, converting the King to Catholicism, and making Watson Lord Keeper.

AFC Ajax have for instance a connection with the South African team Ajax Cape Town, Manchester United have a connection with the Australian team Wollongong Wolves and the Belgian team Royal Antwerp, and Lithuanian side FBK Kaunas have loaned many of their younger players out to their Scottish parent team Heart of Midlothian in the hope of securing them a deal at a bigger club in the future.

Scottish nationality was another source of enthusiasm with him ; and in this connection he displayed real sympathy with highland home life and the grievances of the crofters.

Mary did not restore Lennox to his Scottish earldom, but she did give 1000 crowns to Darnley and invited him to her coronation.

The Act of 1469 finally settled the earldom on the eldest son of the Scottish monarch.

His parents were Scottish and his earldom title was part of the peerage of Scotland.

Ross ( Ros in Scottish Gaelic ) is a region of Scotland and a former mormaerdom, earldom, sheriffdom and county.

In 1471 James bestowed the castle and lands of Ravenscraig in Fife on William Sinclair, in exchange for all his rights to the earldom of Orkney, which, by an Act of the Parliament of Scotland, passed on 20 February 1472, was annexed to the Scottish crown.

On the death in 1868 of their younger son, the fourth Marquess ( who had also succeeded his mother as Baron Grey de Ruthyn ), the marquessate became extinct, the Scottish earldom of Loudoun passed on to his eldest sister, while the Baronies of Hastings, Hungerford, Botreaux, De Moleyns and Grey de Ruthyn fell into abeyance between the sisters.

He had previously been created a Privy Counsellor in 1814 and in 1828 he succeeded to his family's Scottish earldom.

Many Scottish peers were outraged ; the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres even wrote a two-volume history of the earldom refuting the ruling of the Committee.

In Scotland, the earldom of Strathearn was identified as a county palatine in the fourteenth century, although the title of Earl of Strathearn has usually been merged with the crown in subsequent centuries and there is little indication that the status of Strathearn differed in practice from other Scottish earldoms.

The Scottish earldom of Loudoun was passed on to his eldest sister Edith Rawdon-Hastings, 10th Countess of Loudoun ( see Earl of Loudoun for further history of this title ).

The earldom, located in East Lothian, and known interchangeably by the names Dunbar and March ( so-called Northumbrian or Scottish March ), was one of the successor fiefs of Northumbria, an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom and later Earldom.

He married Catherine Alexander, second daughter of General William Alexander, the claimant of the Scottish earldom of Stirling, and a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

He succeeded his father to the earldom in 1724, and was a Scottish representative peer from 1727 to 1734.

He died at his residence at Dryburgh ( near Dryburgh Abbey, in the Scottish Borders ) in April 1829, leaving no legitimate children, and the earldom passed to his nephew Henry.

In 1471 James bestowed the castle and lands of Ravenscraig in Fife on William, earl of Orkney, in exchange for all his rights to the earldom of Orkney, which, by act of parliament, passed on February 20, 1472, was annexed to the Scottish crown.

Under the Bruces and their successors to the Scottish throne the title Earl of Carrick became a prestigious honorific title usually given to a son of the king or intended heir ; at some time between 1250 and 1256 Earl Niall, anticipating that the earldom would be taken over by a man from another family, issued a charter to Lochlann ( Roland ) of Carrick, a son or grandson of one of Donnchadh's brothers.

He succeeded in the earldom of Gowrie on the death of his grandfather on 2 May 1955, and also succeeded his great-uncle ( his grandfather's elder brother ) the 10th Lord Ruthven of Freeland as 3rd Baron Ruthven of Gowrie on 16 April 1956 ( the Scottish lordship of Ruthven of Freeland passed instead via the female line ).

Poe was then taken into the home of John Allan, a successful Scottish merchant in Richmond, Virginia, who dealt in a variety of goods including tobacco, cloth, wheat, tombstones, and slaves.

The largest resedential area in Richmond Heights is the Scottish Highlands, off of Highland Road.

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Lord Darnley is a title associated with a Scottish Lordship of Parliament first created in 1356 for the family of Stewart of Darnley and tracing a descent to the Dukedom of Richmond in England.

Clubs like Saracens, Newcastle and Northampton were able to attract wealthy benefactors, but the professional era also had its casualties, as clubs like West Hartlepool, Richmond and London Scottish were forced into administration when their backers pulled out.

The town was intended to be called Lennox, probably after Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox ( Scottish Gaelic " Leamhnachd "), but the name was misspelled by a clerk at incorporation.

* Gorle, Richmond " The Quiet Gunner " Alamein to the Rhine with the Scottish Divisions, Pen and Sword 2011 ISBN 978 1-84884-540-4

In 1999 London Irish merged with London Scottish and Richmond to form a new umbrella company to support the professional team which now competes in the Aviva Premiership in England.

Very soon after, on 10 April 1878, London Scottish FC was founded in MacKay's Tavern, London, and initially played on Blackheath Common, and later at Richmond Athletic Ground in Surrey.

In the summer of 1998, Scottish, co-tenants of Richmond at the Athletic Ground, were promoted to the top division via a play-off, and Tiarks forced through an ill-fated groundshare with Harlequins and London Broncos at The Stoop.

James Stewart, 1st Duke of Richmond, 4th Duke of Lennox ( 6 April 1612 – 30 March 1655 ) was a Scottish nobleman.

In 1641 James Stewart was created Duke of Richmond, once again uniting the Scottish and English dukedoms.

MacDiarmid, who emigrated with her family in 1987 from the Scottish Highlands to Australia, had been playing tennis after work with two friends at ( what was then known as ) Flinders Park in Batman Avenue, East Melbourne before walking to Richmond station where they found that they had just missed a Frankston line train.

Peter Darrell CBE, a ballet choreographer, dancer and founder of the Scottish Ballet, was born Peter Skinner at Richmond, Surrey, on 16 September 1929 and died in Glasgow on 2 December 1987.

During her stay at Romsey and, some time before 1093, at Wilton Abbey, both institutions known for learning, the Scottish princess was much sought-after as a bride ; refusing proposals from William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, and Alan Rufus, Lord of Richmond.

Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond ( 29 September 1574 – 16 February 1624 ) was a Scottish nobleman and politician.

His English title of Duke of Richmond became extinct, but his Scottish title of Duke of Lennox passed to his brother, Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox.

The professional Richmond club and professional London Scottish F. C.

Richmond share the Athletic Ground with London Scottish, and this rivalry is very intense.

In December 2006 Bob played alongside his friend, former Scottish international Kenny Logan in the Dubai 7's for ' Stefan BHF ' to raise awareness for the British Heart Foundation in memory of the late Stefan Czerpak, ex England colts Newbury RFC and Richmond RFC rugby coach who died in 1998 from a heart attack.

His father, George Lyon, was a Scottish captain in the British army, who settled in Richmond, Ontario.