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Auldhame Castle Ruins
Auldhame and Scoughall are hamlets in East Lothian, Scotland. They are close to the town of North Berwick and the village of Whitekirk, and are approximately east of Edinburgh. Saint Baldred's legacy It is said that the 8th-century Christian missionary Saint Baldred had one of his bases at Auldhame, and through his influence the parish of Auldhame had significant influence in the development of Christianity in Scotland. His name also lives on in St Baldred's Church and St Baldred's Road in North Berwick. Following his death there was a dispute between the parishes of Auldhame, Tyninghame, and Prestonkirk, as to which should have his body. The story goes that by the advice of a Holy Man, they spent the night in prayer. In the morning three bodies were found, in all respects alike, each in its winding sheet, prepared for burial. To this day all three churches maintain Saint Baldred was buried within their walls. In 2005 skeletal and archaeological remains, thought to be a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Lothian Council
East Lothian Council is one of the 32 local government councils in Scotland covering the East Lothian area. Since the last boundary changes in 2017, 22 councillors have been elected from 6 wards. History East Lothian District Council had been created in 1975 under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, as one of four districts within the Lothian region (along with Edinburgh, Midlothian and West Lothian, each having some differences from the territory of their corresponding historic counties). All four districts of Lothian became single tier local authorities in 1996, under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, when the council adopted its current name as East Lothian Council. East Lothian District Council contains twenty Community Councils. A Community Council is a voluntary organisation set up by statute by the Local Authority and run by local residents to act on behalf of its area as the most local tier of elected representation. The Association of East Loth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Otterburn
Sir Adam Otterburn of Auldhame & Scoughall, Auldhame and Redhall (died 6 July 1548) was a Scottish lawyer and diplomat. He was Lord Advocate, king's advocate to James V of Scotland and secretary to Mary of Guise and Regent Arran. In 1527 Otterburn was one of 30 Curia Regis, councillors appointed to sit on the Court of Session#Establishment of the Court, Session. The King's lawyer The law brought against the Douglas family Adam Otterburn was an important servant of the Scottish monarchy as a lawyer and a diplomat. In August 1524, Margaret Tudor sent him to England with the Earl of Cassilis and Scot of Balwearie to negotiate peace, and a possible marriage for James V with Mary I of England, Princess Mary. In May 1525, the English ambassador Dr Thomas Magnus recommended him to Cardinal Wolsey for an annual pension of £20. In 1528, Magnus and Otterburn again discussed the possibilities of a marriage between James V and Princess Mary. When James V assumed the throne as an adult rul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Places In East Lothian
The List of places in East Lothian is a list for any town, village and hamlet in the East Lothian council area of Scotland. Prestongrange Industrial Heritage Museum A * Aberlady, Aberlady Bay * Archerfield Estate and Links * Athelstaneford * Auldhame & Scoughall B * Ballencrieff * Bara * Barnes Castle * Barns Ness, * Bass Rock * Battle of Carberry Hill * Belhaven, * Biel * Bilsdean * Birsley Brae * Blindwells *Bolton * Broxburn *Broxmouth C * Canty Bay * Carberry * Castleton * Cockenzie * Cottyburn * Craigleith * Crossgatehall D * Danskine * Dirleton * Doonhill Homestead * Drem *Dunbar * Dunglass E * East Fenton * East Fortune * East Links Family Park * East Linton * East Saltoun * Elphinstone * Elvingston * Eskmills * Eyebroughy F * Fenton Barns, Fenton Tower * Fidra * Fisherrow * Fountainhall G * Garleton * Garvald * Gifford * Gilchriston * Gladsmuir * Gullane, Gullane Bents H * Haddington, Haddington Line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kidnapped (novel)
''Kidnapped'' is a historical novel, historical fiction adventure novel by Scottish people, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written as a boys' novel and first published in the magazine ''Young Folks (magazine), Young Folks'' from May to July 1886. The novel has attracted the praise and admiration of writers as diverse as Henry James, Jorge Luis Borges, and Hilary Mantel. A sequel, ''Catriona (novel), Catriona'', was published in 1893. The narrative is written in English with some dialogue in Lowland Scots Language, Lowland Scots, a Germanic language that evolved from an earlier incarnation of English. ''Kidnapped'' is set around real 18th-century Scottish events, notably the "Appin Murder" and the Highland Clearances, which occurred in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745. Many of the characters are real people, including one of the principals, Alan Breck Stewart. The political situation of the time is portrayed from multiple viewpoints, and the Scottish Highland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catriona (novel)
''Catriona'' (also known as ''David Balfour'') is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel ''Kidnapped (novel), Kidnapped'' (1886). It was first published in the magazine ''Atalanta (magazine), Atalanta'' from December 1892 to September 1893. The novel continues the story of the central character in ''Kidnapped'', David Balfour. Plot summary The book begins precisely as ''Kidnapped'' ends, at 2 pm on 25 August 1751, outside the British Linen Bank, British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland. The first part of the book recounts the attempts of the hero, David Balfour, to gain justice for James Stewart of the Glen, James Stewart (James of the Glens), who has been arrested and charged in Art and part, airts and pairts with the Appin Murder. David makes a statement to a lawyer and goes on to meet William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, William Grant of Prestongrange, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, to press the case for James' innocence. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as ''Treasure Island'', ''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'', ''Kidnapped (novel), Kidnapped'' and ''A Child's Garden of Verses''. Born and educated in Edinburgh, Stevenson suffered from serious bronchial trouble for much of his life but continued to write prolifically and travel widely in defiance of his poor health. As a young man, he mixed in London literary circles, receiving encouragement from Sidney Colvin, Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Leslie Stephen and William Ernest Henley, W. E. Henley, the last of whom may have provided the model for Long John Silver in ''Treasure Island''. In 1890, he settled in Samoa where, alarmed at increasing European and American influence in the Polynesia, South Sea islands, his writing turned from Romance (literary fiction), romance and adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seacliff
Seacliff comprises a beach, an estate and a harbour. It lies east of North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. History The beach and estate command a strategic position at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, and control of the area has been contested through the ages. The beach and estate were used as a staging post for various raids on nearby Tantallon Castle from the 14th to the 17th century. Troops were also stationed here to prevent landings by the French during the Napoleonic Wars in 1798. Before bloodshed touched the area, the 8th century Christian missionary Saint Baldred of Tyninghame, Baldred was based in nearby Scoughall, and several features of the area have been named after him, such as "Ghegan Rock" (Churchman's Haven). In quieter times, the ownership of the estate has changed hands on several occasions. Seacliff House was built in 1750 by Robert Colt. It was later bought by George Sligo who in 1841 employed the famous Scottish architect David Bryce to build a new hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tantallon Castle
Tantallon Castle is a ruined mid-14th-century fortress, located east of North Berwick, in East Lothian, Scotland. It sits atop a promontory opposite the Bass Rock, looking out onto the Firth of Forth. The last medieval curtain wall castle to be constructed in Scotland,Lindsay, ''The Castles of Scotland'', p.440–442 Tantallon comprises a single wall blocking off the headland, with the other three sides naturally protected by sea cliffs. Tantallon was built in the mid 14th century by William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas. It was passed to his illegitimate son, George Douglas, 1st Earl of Angus, George Douglas, later created Earl of Angus, and despite several sieges, it remained the property of his descendants for much of its history. It was besieged by King James IV of Scotland, James IV in 1491, and again by his successor James V of Scotland, James V in 1527, when extensive damage was done. Tantallon saw action in the First Bishops' War in 1639, and again during Oliver Cromwel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seacliff, Scotland
Seacliff comprises a beach, an estate and a harbour. It lies east of North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. History The beach and estate command a strategic position at the mouth of the Firth of Forth, and control of the area has been contested through the ages. The beach and estate were used as a staging post for various raids on nearby Tantallon Castle from the 14th to the 17th century. Troops were also stationed here to prevent landings by the French during the Napoleonic Wars in 1798. Before bloodshed touched the area, the 8th century Christian missionary Saint Baldred was based in nearby Scoughall, and several features of the area have been named after him, such as "Ghegan Rock" (Churchman's Haven). In quieter times, the ownership of the estate has changed hands on several occasions. Seacliff House was built in 1750 by Robert Colt. It was later bought by George Sligo who in 1841 employed the famous Scottish architect David Bryce to build a new house in baronial style ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Admiralty
The Admiralty was a Departments of the Government of the United Kingdom, department of the Government of the United Kingdom that was responsible for the command of the Royal Navy. Historically, its titular head was the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State. For much of its history, from the early Admiralty in the 18th century, 18th century until its abolition, the role of the Lord High Admiral was almost invariably put "in commission" and exercised by the Lords Commissioner of the Admiralty, who sat on the governing Board of Admiralty, rather than by a single person. The Admiralty was replaced by the Admiralty Board (United Kingdom), Admiralty Board in 1964, as part of the reforms that created the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence and its Navy Department (Ministry of Defence), Navy Department (later Navy Command (Ministry of Defence), Navy Command). Before the Acts of Union 1707, the Office of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyninghame House
Tyninghame House is a mansion in East Lothian, Scotland. It is located by the mouth of the River Tyne, east of Tyninghame, and west of Dunbar. There was a manor at Tyninghame in 1094, and it was later a property of the Lauder of The Bass family. In the 17th century, it was sold to the Earl of Haddington. The present building dates from 1829 when the 9th Earl of Haddington employed William Burn to greatly enlarge the house in the Baronial style. In 1987 the contents of the house were sold, and the house was divided into flats. The house is protected as a category A listed building, and the grounds are included in the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens. History There was a manor on the lands in 1094, when it was mentioned in a charter of Duncan II of Scotland to the monks of St Cuthberts. From 1250 into the 16th century Tyninghame was held by the Bishops of St Andrews. It was leased to the Lauder family as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Rock
The Bass Rock, or simply the Bass (), is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. Approximately offshore, and north-east of North Berwick, it is a steep-sided volcanic plug, at its highest point, and is home to a large colony of gannets. The rock is uninhabited, but historically has been settled by an 8th-century Christian hermit, and later was the site of an important castle, which after the Commonwealth period was used as a prison. The island belongs to Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, whose family acquired it in 1706, and previously to the Lauder family for almost six centuries. The Bass Rock Lighthouse was constructed on the rock in 1902, and the remains of a chapel survive. The Bass Rock features in many works of fiction, including Lion Let Loose by Nigel Tranter, ''Catriona'' by Robert Louis Stevenson, ''The Lion Is Rampant'' by the Scottish novelist Ross Laidlaw and ''The New Confessions'' by William Boyd. Most recently it features prom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
