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Aboyne (Scots: Abyne, Scottish Gaelic: Abèidh) is a village on the edge of the Highlands in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, on the River Dee, approximately 30 miles (48 km) west of Aberdeen. It has a swimming pool at Aboyne Academy, all-weather tennis courts, a bowling green and is home to the oldest 18 hole golf course on Royal Deeside.
1890: William Alexander Hunter, MP for Aberdeen North; 1890: Henry Morton Stanley, explorer; 5 July 1892: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist [8] 10 April 1901: Charles William Mitchell, son of shipbuilder Charles Mitchell; 27 April 1901: George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, philanthropist (presented at Aberdeen 27 August 1901 [9])
Born at Tillyfour Farm near Alford in Aberdeenshire, the home of his father, Charles McCombie, a farming cattle dealer with Highland roots. [3] He was the cousin of William McCombie of Cairnballoch (1809-1870), the founder editor of the radical Aberdeen Free Press. [4]
Free-scoring Swedish champions Hacken will provide a tough test for Aberdeen's makeshift defence in their Europa League play-off, writes Thomas Duncan.
Name Type Date Condition Ownership Location Notes Picture Abergeldie Castle: Tower house: About 1550: Preserved: Gordon family: Near Crathie: Leased to the Royal Family 1848–1970 ...
Alexander established himself as a writer with the help of the Mutual Instruction movement which flourished in North-East Scotland at this time under the direction of William McCombie of Cairnballoch, farmer, philosopher, economist and newspaper editor, who gave him a job as reporter and chief clerk of the Aberdeen Free Press in the autumn of 1852. [1]