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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]
J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist and evolutionary biologist; John Haldane, MP for Scotland in the 1st Parliament of Great Britain; Lord Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, Lord Chancellor, "'Father of the Territorial Army'" Robert Haldane; John Joseph Haldane, aristocrat; British philosopher; art critic; political commentator; papal advisor
Robert Dundas Haldane-Duncan, 1st Earl of Camperdown KT (21 March 1785 – 22 December 1859), styled Lord Duncan from 1797 to 1804 and known as Viscount Duncan from 1804 to 1831, was a British soldier and aristocrat.
English: Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Portrait of Captain Robert Haldane, of Gleneagles (1705-1767) oil on canvas The sitter was the youngest son of John Haldane, M.P. (1660-1721), and his second wife, Helen, only daughter of Sir Charles Erskine of Alva, 1st Bt. (1643-1690), ninth son of the Earl of Mar.
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 ...
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan The grave of Robert Dundas Duncan Haldane (sometimes written Haldane-Duncan), on the north side of the main path, towards the central chapel, Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Earl of Camperdown, of Lundie in the County of Forfar and of Gleneagles in the County of Perth, was a title in the Peerage of the United ...
Mungo Haldane (c. 1682–1755), Scottish Member of Parliament; 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
Margaret Fraser, who married (1) Robert Arbuthnott of Arbuthnott in 1617, (2) John Haldane of Gleneagles in 1633. Her portrait was painted in 1666 and she wears mourning clothes with an heirloom diamond set jewel with three pendant pearls, which may have belonged to her mother. [13] Simon Fraser, knight [14] Jean Stewart died at Bunchrew in 1622.