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In 1560 Robert Haldane, laird of Gleneagles, and his brother John, were at the Siege of Leith in support of the Scottish Reformation. [3] Embracing the reformation, the Haldanes played a prominent part in the political upheavals that removed Mary, Queen of Scots. [1] The Haldanes were part of a force that laid siege to Stirling Castle in 1585. [1]
1.1 Law officers. 1.2 Judiciary. 2 Events. 3 Births. ... Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, ... John Fraser, botanist (died 1811 ...
Naomi Mitchison (1897–1999), née Haldane, Scottish writer; daughter of John Scott Haldane and sister of J. B. S. Haldane; Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles (c. 1683 –1769), Scottish classicist, advocate, and politician, joint Solicitor-General for Scotland 1746–55; Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane (1856–1928), British lawyer and ...
1.1 Law officers. 1.2 Judiciary. 2 Events. 3 Births. ... Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, ... John Austin, inventor (died 1830)
Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, ... 4 October – Sir John Clerk, 2nd Baronet, politician, lawyer, judge and composer (born 1676)
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He succeeded his brother Mungo Haldane as 16th Laird of Gleneagles in 1759. He was Professor of Greek at St. Andrews University in 1705-07 and professor of ecclesiastical history there in 1707-18. He was a commissioner of the equivalent in 1715-16, provost of St. Andrews from 1716 to 1720, commissioner for forfeited estates from 1716–25, and ...
1.1 Law officers. 1.2 Judiciary. 2 ... Solicitor General for Scotland – Patrick Haldane of Gleneagles, jointly with ... 27 September – Sir John Anstruther, 1st ...