Rothes is also manned by a retained fire station and a GP's surgery.
Joseph MacKenzie wrote the haunting lament after the death of his wife, Christine, and in memory of his great-grandfather, Charles Stuart MacKenzie, a sergeant in the Seaforth Highlanders, who along with hundreds of his brothers-in-arms from the Elgin-Rothes area in Moray, Scotland went to fight in the Great War.
Rothes | John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes | Earl of Rothes | William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes | John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes |
The notion of constructing a railway from Elgin to Lossiemouth was first considered in 1841 by James Grant, an Elgin solicitor who owned, with his brother, the Glen Grant distillery at Rothes—Grant was later to become Provost of Elgin.
Arms of William Courtenay, 10th Earl of Devon (d.1859), impaling the arms of his wife Hariet Leslie: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Pepys, Baronets of Juniper Hill; 2nd & 3rd: Leslie, Earls of Rothes.
William Leslie, 3rd Earl of Rothes (died 1513), Scottish nobleman, briefly Earl of Rothes in 1513, killed at Flodden Field