BATTLEGROUND PERTHSHIRE is a concise account of the battles and minor military events that have taken place within the county of Perthshire. Comprising two thousand years of battles, raids, rebellions, sieges, riots, feuds, ambushes and skirmishes, Battleground Perthshire shines the spotlight on the military history of Scotland’s big county. Drawn from extensive primary and secondary sources: archives, eyewitness accounts and official records, it tells the fascinating stories of struggles for wealth, power, freedom and the right to self-determination. This chronicle of Perthshire’s military history stands as an important reminder of some of the events that have marked the development of the Scottish people. It will appeal both to the reader interested in the history of Scotland and to those interested in military history.
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Spanish Thermopylae: Cypriot Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39 SPANISH THERMOPYLÆ is the story of the fifty-seven Cypriots who served in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39. It is also the story of a war that defined the lives of a generation and whose outcome decided the fate of hundreds of millions of people across the world. Drawing on recently released records from the Comintern Archive in Moscow, Spanish Thermopylae will appeal both to the reader interested in the experiences of the Cypriot volunteers, and to anyone looking for a concise history of the Spanish Civil War. 'This is the first book devoted solely to the contribution made by Cypriots to the cause of democracy and progress in the Spanish Civil War. It bears witness to the injustice committed against humanity by fascism in Spain and the inspirational sacrifices made by a small band of Cypriot volunteers. Spanish Thermopylae is a fitting tribute to them, and the International Brigades.' Demetris Christofias, President of the Republic of Cyprus 'True to the best traditions of their Greek forefathers, the heroes of the Greek War of Independence, the Cypriots rallied to the support of Spanish democracy and independence, realising that a defeat for the Spanish people would have meant world war. On the Spanish battlefields was being decided the fate of Europe and with it that of Cyprus. They recognised fascism as the greatest enemy of humanity and volunteered to help crush it... Many Cypriots lie buried in the Spanish soil fighting fascism. Cyprus is proud of her heroic sons who fell in the anti-fascist cause, but the fight is not over. We fight on until fascism is destroyed from the face of the earth.' Ezekias Papaioannou, Cypriot International Brigades volunteer and General Secretary of AKEL (1949-88) "Before many years have passed, their own countries will feel equally proud of the volunteers. That will be their best and highest reward." Juan Negrín, Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic (1937-39). It is available from www.amazon.co.uk
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HISTORY
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Adam Abel: Franciscan friar and chronicler known for his The Roit (or Quheill of Tyme) - A Chronicle written in the Scots language. He was originally an Augustinian canon regular at Inchaffray Abbey (1495 to at least 1510). He is most probably buried at Jedburgh friary. Abel was born around 1475/80 and died circa 1537.
Adam Adair: Geographer and Cartographer (1660-1718) born at Leith. He was involved in the 1716 schemes to control flood in Perth.
Henry Adamson: Henry Adamson (1581 - 1639) was a Scottish poet and historian. He was the son of James Adamson, Dean of guild in Perth. He was trained for the church,but became a schoolmaster in his home city.
His friend William Drummond induced him to publish his most famous poem: Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, (Edinburgh, 1638). The poem is an important document in that gives a general account of Perth in the seventeenth century. He is credited with first using the word curling in 1620. He related that his friend, Mr Gall, "a citizen of Perth, and a gentle-man of goodly stature, and pregnant wit, much given to pastime, as golf, archerie, curling and jovial companie." It also records the playing of Golf on the South Inch:
And ye, my clubs must no more prepare
To make your balls flee whistling through the air
It is also particularly noted for its connection of Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry and second sight. Referring to the rebuilding of a bridge over the River Tay, swept away in 1621, Adamson wrote:
Thus Mr Gall assured it would be so
And my good genius doth surely know:
For what we do presage is not in grosse
For we be brethren of the Rosie Crosse;
We have the Mason word, and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright.
Patrick Adamson: Patrick Adamson was born at Perth. He studied philosophy, and took the degree of M.A. at St Andrews. After being minister of Ceres in Fife for three years, in 1566 he set out for Paris as tutor to the eldest son of Sir James Macgill, the clerk-general. In June of the same year he wrote a Latin poem on the birth of the young prince James, whom he described as "serenissimus princeps" of France and England. The French court was offended, and he was confined for six months. He was released only through the intercession of Queen Mary of Scotland and some of the principal nobility, and retired with his pupil to Bourges. He was in this city at the time of the massacre of St Bartholomew at Paris, and lived concealed for seven months in a public-house, the aged master of which, in reward for his charity to a heretic, was thrown from the roof. While in this 'Sepulchre', he wrote his Latin poetical version of the book of Job, and his tragedy of Herod in the same language. In 1572 or 1573 he returned to Scotland, and became minister of Paisley. In 1575 he was appointed by the General Assembly one of the commissioners to settle the jurisdiction and policy of the church; and the following year he was named, with David Lindsay, to report their proceedings to the Earl of Morton, then regent. In 1576 his appointment as archbishop of St Andrews gave rise to a protracted conflict with the Presbyterian party in the Assembly. He had previously published a catechism in Latin verse dedicated to the king, a work highly approved even by his opponents, and also a Latin translation of the Scottish Confession of Faith. In 1578 he submitted himself to the General Assembly, which procured him peace for a little time, but next year fresh accusations were brought against him. He took refuge in St Andrews Castle, where 'a wise woman', Alison Pearson, who was ultimately burned for witchcraft, cured him of a serious illness. In 1583 he went as James's ambassador to the court of Elizabeth, and is said to have behaved rather badly. On his return he took strong parliamentary measures against Presbyterians, and consequently, at a provincial synod held at St Andrews in April 1586, he was accused of heresy and excommunicated, but at the next General Assembly the sentence was remitted as illegal. In 1587 and 1588, however, fresh accusations were brought against him, and he was again excommunicated, though afterwards on the inducement of his old opponent, Andrew Melville, the sentence was again remitted. Meanwhile he had published the Lamentations of Jeremiah, and the book of Revelation in Latin verse, which he dedicated to the king, complaining of his hard usage. But James was unmoved by his application, and granted the revenue of his see to the Duke of Lennox. For the rest of his life Adamson was supported by charity; he died in 1592. His recantation of Episcopacy (1590) is probably spurious. Adamson was a man of many gifts, learned and eloquent, but with grave defects of character. His collected works, prefaced by a fulsome panegyric, in the course of which it is said that "he was a miracle of nature, and rather seemed to be the immediate production of God Almighty than born of a woman," were produced by his son-in-law, Thomas Wilson, in 1619.
Andrew, Bishop of Caithness: Andreas or Aindréas of Caithness (died 1184) is the first known bishop of Caithness and a source for the author of de Situ Albanie. Aindréas was a native Scot, and very likely came from a prominent family in Gowrie, or somewhere in this part of Scotland. He was a prominent landowner in Gowrie, Angus and Fife, and it is likely that he was a brother of one Eógan "of Monorgan", another Gowrie landlord. At some stage in his career, he was a monk of Dunfermline Abbey (see below), though it is not known if this was before or during his period as bishop of Caithness. The date of his accession to the bishopric is unknown, but he was certainly bishop by the year 1146. The latter date is the latest date for Aindréas' first charter appearance (as bishop) in the notitiae written on the margins of the Book of Deer. It is not known for certain that Aindréas ever visited Caithness, but his successor John certainly did. If Aindréas did, he would have been based at Halkirk. It is probably no coincidence that the erection of the Scottish diocese of Caithness, and imposition of a Gaelic bishop, coincided with the introduction of Harald (Aralt), son of the Earl or Mormaer of Atholl Matad, as ruler of the formerly Norse-ruled province. Bishop Aindréas is a frequent witness to the charters of Kings David I, Máel Coluim IV and William I. The author of the early 13th century historical tract known as de Situ Albanie (En: On the Place of Scotland) cites Aindréas as a source for his second list of Pictish kingdoms, and describes him as "a trustworthy informant ... a venerable man, bishop of Caithness, by nation a Gael (nacione Scoctus) and monk of Dunfermline". He died at Dunfermline on December 29, 1184.
William Arnot: William Arnot (1808-1875) was a Free Church minister, and the author of several books which may be obtained today, including a work on the Book of Proverbs, "Laws from Heaven for Life on Earth," and an exposition entitled "The Parables of Our Lord."
Francis Buchanan White who was born and died in Perth (20 March, 1842 - 3 December 1894) was an entomologist. In 1883, Buchanan White re-described the known species of the Hemiptera genus Halobates and he illustrated 11 species in colour, with numerous drawings in black and white of structural details. This was one of the parts of the Challenger Report.
Lawrence Tuttiett (1825-1897) was born in Colyton in Devon and educated at Christ’s Hospital and King’s College. Originally planning a medical career, Tuttiet took Holy Orders in 1848. Within a year he was a priest and by 1850 the curate at St. Paul’s in Knightsbridge, followed by the curacy at St. Thomas’. Other curacies included Holy Trinity in Ride, Longton in Stoke-on-Trent and Lea Marston in Warwickshire. From 1868-1869 he was vicar at Lea Marston. He married a Helen Carnegy in 1854 and their daughter Helen Hunter was born in 1855. As a clergyman he advocated the teaching of catechism in school. Other posts included: Rector at the Scottish Episcopal Church of St. Andrew in St. Andrews; Canon of St. Ninian’s Cathedral in Perth. He was canon in Perth until his death in June 1897. He is known for his poetry, books but especially his hymns. His most famous hymn is Father Let Me Dedicate. The hymns of Lawrence Tuttiett have been described as possessing “smoothness of rhythm, direction of aim, simplicity of language and deep earnestness.”
Writing:
Hymns for Churchmen (1854) Counsels of a Godfather (1861) Hymns for the Children of the Church (1862) Gems of Thought on the Sunday Services (1864) Through the Clouds; Thoughts in Plain Verse (1866)
Hymns:
As Calmly in the Glowing West As Now Thy Children Lowly Kneel Come, Our Father’s Voice Is Calling Father, Let Me Dedicate Give Light, O Lord Go Forward, Christian Soldier Grant Us Thy Light I Come, O Father Kind Lo, Like a Bride in Pure Array No Sign We Ask from Heaven Above Now, Eternal Father, Bless O Grant Us Light O Happy Christian Children O Jesu, Ever Present O Quickly Come, Dread Judge of All Shepherd, Good and Gracious Sometimes o’er Our Pathway When the World Is Brightest Who Is This? The Long Expected.
James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (6 October 1776 - 19 December 1845), English statesman, was the son of Colonel James Archibald Stuart, son of John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute and of his wife Mary Wortley-Montagu (Baroness Mountstuart), as whose heir Colonel Stuart added the name of Wortley, taking later also that of Mackenzie (which his son in later life discarded) as heir to his uncle JS Mackenzie of Rosehaugh. He entered the army, becoming a colonel in 1797, but retired in 1801 and devoted himself to politics, sitting in parliament as a Tory for the rotten borough of Bossiney in Cornwall till 1818, when he was returned for Yorkshire. His attitude on various questions became gradually more Liberal, and his support of Catholic emancipation lost him his seat in 1826. He represented the Perth Burghs in 1830. He was then raised to the peerage as Baron Wharncliffe of Wortley, a recognition both of his previous parliamentary activity and of his high position among the country gentlemen. At first opposing the Reform Bill, he gradually came to see the undesirability of a popular conflict, and he separated himself from the Tories and took an important part in modifying the attitude of the peers and helping to pass the bill, though his attempts at amendment only resulted in his pleasing neither party. He became Lord Privy Seal in Peel's short ministry at the end of 1834, and again joined him in 1841 as Lord President of the Council. In 1837 he brought out an edition of the writings of his ancestress, Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu (new ed. 1893). On 30 March 1799, he married Lady Elizabeth Caroline Mary Crichton (1779-1856), by whom he had four children John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe (1801-1855) Hon. Charles Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (1802-1844) Hon. James Archibald Stuart-Wortley (1805-1881), recorder of London and solicitor-general Hon. Caroline Jane Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie (d. 12 June 1876), married on 30 August 1830 Hon. John Chetwynd-Talbot (1806-1852)
Barclay, Hugh (1799-1884), judge, born on 18 January 1799 in the Gorbals, Glasgow. Apprenticeship as a law-agent then admitted a member of the Faculty of Advocates in 1821. In 1829 appointed sheriff-substitute of Dunblane and in 1833 sheriff-substitute of Perthshire. He wrote ‘A Digest of the Law of Scotland’, (1852-3). He published on a range of miscellaneous legal matters, from the law of highways to the Scots law against profaning the Sabbath. Frequent contributor to the Journal of Jurisprudence and other legal: ‘Curiosities of the Game Laws’ and ‘Curiosities of Legislation’. Married Margaret Buchanan and they had at least one son and one daughter. Prominent
member of the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. Published ‘Thoughts on Sabbath Schools’ (1855) and other books. Barclay died at his residence at Early Bank, Craigie, near Perth, on 1 February 1884, having for several years been the oldest judge in Scotland. |
