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The Brahan Seer, Coinneach Odher, is thought to have been born around 1650 at Uig on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer hebrides. He was blessed with the gift of second sight, or the ability to foretell future events............................

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At the age of twelve, John Paul let his home to serve as a cabin boy in a merchant ship sailing for Virginia. He was soon warranted as a mid-shipman in the British Navy but by the age of 24 he was the mate of a Jamaican slave ship. He quit this disgraceful trade and was on board a vessel heading

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Agnes was the daughter of the celebrated Thomas Randolph who daringly captured Edinburh castle for the Bruce in 1313........

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Alexander Peden was born at Auchincloich, Sorn, Ayrshire. After beginning his education at the local school, he went on to Glasgow University where he took a degree in Divinity. He was ordained as the minister of New Luce in Galloway where he remained for three years until, .........

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Tobias Smollett was the son of Sir James Smollett of Bonhill, Dumbartinshire. His father died at a young age and Tobias was brought up by his Grndfather who promoted the Union of 1707........

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James Kennedy was a grandson of King Robert 2nd. He was educated at the University of St. Andrews then went on to study at Louvain in Brabant, now part of Belgioum.......

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Sir Alexander Fleming was born at Lochfield near Darvel in Ayrshire, Scotland on August 6th, 1881. He attended Louden Moor School, Darvel School, and Kilmarnock Academy before moving to London where he attended the Polytechnic. He spent four years in a shipping office before...

A very old man

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At Leadhills village in south Lanarkshire, you will find the tombstone and grave which was erected to the memory of a miner named John Taylor. The son of a miner, John was born in Garryhill on Alston Moor in 1637 and after the death of his father he went to work in the mines as a...

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Sir John Murray of Broughton is more Infamous than famous. Born in 1715 and educated at Edinburgh university, he eventually became Secretary to Prince Charles Edward Stewart during the Jacobite rising of 1745/6 After the Battle of Culloden, he surrendered to the Hanovarian government...

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He was the son of the Sheriff-Clerk of Selkirkshire, and was born in Selkirk on 31 March 1844. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and the Univerisites of St Andrews and Glasgow, and won a Snell Exhibition to Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated with a first in Greats in 1868 and became...