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Laird (earlier lard) is the now-standard Scots pronunciation (and phonetic spelling) of the word that is pronounced and spelled in standard English as lord. [3] As can be seen in the Middle English version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, [4] specifically in the Reeve's Tale, Northern Middle English had a where Southern Middle English had o, a difference still found in standard English two and ...
Sir James Campbell, 1st Baronet. Thomas Tupper Carter-Campbell of Possil. Gabriel Christie (British Army officer) John Christie (landowner) John Clerk of Eldin. John Corse Scott. Robert Croc. Crown Estate Scotland. William Cunninghame.
t. e. In common law systems, land tenure, from the French verb " tenir " means "to hold", is the legal regime in which land "owned" by an individual is possessed by someone else who is said to "hold" the land, based on an agreement between both individuals. [1] It determines who can use land, for how long and under what conditions.
Charles Pearson is a Director of The Dickinson Trust Ltd, The Cowdray Estate Trust Ltd and the Cabardunn Development Company Ltd. He is the principal partner in the Dunecht Home Farms Partnership, a farming business operating over 3,000 acres (12 km 2) in Aberdeenshire. Enterprises on the farm include cereals, oilseed rape, beef cattle and sheep.
James Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Arran had been imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle as a suspect traitor. He suffered from mental health issues. In 1566 he was allowed to live at Hamilton Castle. A number of members of the Hamilton family, including Andrew Hamilton of Goslington, undertook to be "cautioners" for his good behaviour. [2] Andrew Hamilton of ...
Seanchaí. A seanchaí (pronounced [ˈʃan̪ˠəxiː] or [ʃan̪ˠəˈxiː] – plural: Irish: seanchaithe [ˈʃan̪ˠəxəhɪ]) is a traditional Gaelic storyteller or historian, serving as an oral repository. In Scottish Gaelic the word is seanchaidh (pronounced [ˈʃɛn̪ˠɛxɪ]; plural: seanchaidhean). The word is often anglicised as ...
Fairyland may be referred to simply as Fairy or Faerie, though that usage is an archaism.It is often the land ruled by the "Queen of Fairy", and thus anything from fairyland is also sometimes described as being from the "Court of the Queen of Elfame" or from the Seelie court in Scottish folklore.
B. John Campbell, 3rd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland. John Campbell, 1st Marquess of Breadalbane. Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch. Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of Buccleuch. Francis Scott, 2nd Duke of Buccleuch. Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.