His claim to fame as a cricketer was scoring seven of Victoria's world record 1107 runs against New South Wales in his debut summer.
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Scottish bishops were under pressure to declare their allegiance to William of Orange over the Stuart King James VI.
The Scottish Gaelic-speaking, mostly Catholic and Episcopalian Highlanders tended to stay loyal to the Stuart king James VII, while the English-speaking, mostly Presbyterian Lowlanders - who were the majority and held most of the political power in Scotland - tended to support William of Orange.
The name of the area is derived from the occasion when the Stuart King Charles I supposedly reviewed his troops standing on the Neolithic Bowl Barrow in the area on October 18, 1642 during the English Civil War, after his stay at nearby Aston Hall.
The "Wild Geese" were members of the Irish army led by Patrick Sarsfield, who, by the terms of the treaty of Limerick in 1691, were given the choice of death or exile with the Stuart King James II in France.
After the Glorious Revolution of 1688–89 resulted in the Roman Catholic Stuart king, James II of England and VII of Scotland, fleeing to exile in France, James' daughter and her husband, William and Mary, ascended the British throne as joint sovereigns, and were succeeded by the Protestant House of Hanover.
According to Robert Ambelain, the Primitive Scottish Rite was practiced by the military Jacobite Lodges, founded by exiled Scottish and Irish Jacobite followers of the deposed Stuart King, James II of England (James VII of Scotland).
He took his seat in the Parliament of Scotland on 22 October 1690, but he never took the oath of allegiance to the new monarchs, William and Mary, who in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 had unseated the last Stuart king, James II.