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unusual facts about Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale


Selkirkshire

Unlike many counties, Selkirkshire has not continued to exist as a lieutenancy area, but has become part of Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale for these purposes.


Adlai Stevenson I

John Turner Stevenson's grandfather, William was born in Roxburgh, Scotland then migrated to and from Ulster around 1748, settling first in Pennsylvania and then in North Carolina in the County of Iredell.

Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll

In 1638, the king summoned him, together with Traquair and Roxburgh, to London, but he refused to be won over, warned Charles against his despotic ecclesiastical policy, and showed great hostility towards William Laud.

Baron Clinton

The present family seat in 2012 is Heanton Satchville, Huish, near Merton, Devon, which was built in 1782 as "Innis House" by Sir James Innis, Duke of Roxburgh, and was purchased by the 18th Baron Clinton in about 1805, renamed Heanton Satchville, which burned down in 1935 and was rebuilt.

Cultural depictions of Robert II of Scotland

Part of the action takes place at Linlithgow Palace, where Robert promises to marry his daughter Margaret Stewart "to the knight who shall take that castle of Roxburgh out of the hands of the English".

Elizabeth de Burgh

He imprisoned Bruce's sister Mary and Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, in wooden cages erected on the walls of Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively, and then sent Bruce's nine-year-old daughter Marjorie to the nunnery at Watton.

Golf Canada

Other International events the RCGA has been much involved in are the World Amateur Team Matches for the Eisenhower Trophy, since 1958: winning in 1986, placing second in 1962, 1964, 1978, and 2006, and hosting these “Olympics” of golf in 1992; the Commonwealth Matches, won by Canada in 1971 and 1975, discontinued in 1975; and the Simon Bolivar Biennial Tournament, won in 1981 by Doug Roxburgh and Gary Cowan representing Canada.

Henry de Percy, 3rd Baron Percy

In July 1352 he was made joint warden of the marches towards Scotland, and in September 1355 keeper of Roxburgh Castle and sheriff of Northumberland for two years.

Maiden Paps, Hawick

Although there are some well defined hills like the Maiden Paps, the Roxburgh Hills are gently rolling for the most part, like much of the Southern Uplands.

Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon

Nicolas insisted they should halt and build a fortification at Roxburgh and decided the best position.

Paerau

Despite being geographically close to Middlemarch and Roxburgh, the terrain and roads mean that Ranfurly and Patearoa are the more closely related communities of interested.

Richard Roxburgh

The two actors played the protagonists (Weaving as Vladimir and Roxburgh as Estragon) in Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot.

In 2000, Roxburgh appeared in the first of several international blockbuster films when he appeared as henchman Hugh Stamp in the John Woo-directed Mission: Impossible II, which was filmed in Sydney.

Rough Wooing


Sire, see Inchkeith,
Also see strong Fast Castle,
So much assault, skirmish and hassle,
Here also close to Dunglass,
Further the side where sits the burgh
the castle conquered is Roxburgh.

Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale

It consists of the committee areas of Eildon, Cheviot and Teviot and Liddesdale (the former (1975—1996) local government districts of Roxburgh and Ettrick and Lauderdale) within the Scottish Borders council area.


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