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5 unusual facts about Kincardineshire


Alexander Roberts

Alexander Roberts (Marykirk, Kincardineshire, 12 May 1826 – 8 March 1901) was a Scottish biblical scholar.

George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon

Brodie was the daughter of Alexander Brodie of Arnhall in Kincardineshire.

John Henry Anderson

John Henry Anderson (1814–1874) was a professional magician, born in The Mearns, Scotland.

Kincardineshire

His book Sunset Song is one the most important Scottish novels of the 20th century.

Oliver McGregor, Baron McGregor of Durris

Oliver McGregor, Baron McGregor of Durris (25 August 1921 - 10 November 1997), born Durris, Kincardineshire.


Alexander Baird

Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet (1849–1920), Lord-Lieutenant of Kincardineshire and philanthropist in Egypt

Allardice

Allardice Castle, a sixteenth-century manor house in Kincardineshire, Scotland

Baron Meston

Baron Meston, of Agra in the Indian Empire and Dunnottar in the County of Kincardine, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

David Ramsay

Sir David Ramsay, 4th Baronet (after 1673–1710), among Scottish representatives to 1st Parliament of Great Britain MP for Scotland & Kincardineshire

Hugh Alexander Webster

The son of Rev David Webster and Isabella McKinnon, Hugh Webster was born in Laurencekirk, Kincardineshire, and educated first privately by his father and later at Edinburgh University (1878–80).

James Loch

Lock married, first, in 1810, Ann, youngest daughter of Patrick Orr of Bridgeton, Kincardineshire, by whom, among several other children, he had sons, Granville Gower Loch and Henry Brougham Loch, who was a G.C.M.G. and G.C.B., governor of the Cape, and high commissioner for South Africa.

Joan Eardley

In the early 1950s while convalescing from mumps Eardley was taken by a friend to visit Catterline, a small fishing village near Stonehaven, then in Kincardineshire (now Aberdeenshire).


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