Author: Captain Craigengelt
Captain Craigengelt, an adventurer-soldier, companion of Frank Hayston.
From The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott
18 May 1843 The Great Disruption and the other splits in the Reformed Scottish Church
John Oal, Distiller in Caithness and Nova Scotia
Robert Flockhart Vickers and the Gorebridge Murders
Rudolph Hess flight to meet the Duke of Hamilton, 10 May 1941
HRH the Duke of Kent in Dunbar, 10 May 2019
The Earls of Selkirk, the most complicated peerage
The Lord Selkirk of Douglas and the 39 Steps
Fidra – the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island
Craigengelt – what’s in a name? and the Wingate connection
Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, the Port Seton and Tasmanian connection
From the Sudan to Dunbar: General Sir Reginald Wingate
Janet Dalrymple – the inspiration for Lucy Ashton and Lucia di Lammermoor
From Poldark to Mustique
Sir Chris Hoy – Going For Gold
Rev. John Witherspoon and his reputed Reece and Knox connections
Murder Most Foul: from Miss Marple to the House of Lords
Dame Margaret Kidd, QC (14 March 1900 – 22 March 1989)
The Corn King and the Spring Queen: From the Haldanes of Gleneagles to the sons of Naomi Mitchison
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