Tour Scotland Travel Video General John Scott of Balcomie Grave Kilrenny East Neuk Of Fife

Tour Scotland travel video of the General John Scott of Balcomie gravestone in the cemetery of the Parish Church on ancestry visit to Kilrenny by Anstruther, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. Scott was a celebrated gambler, whose skill and phenomenal luck gained him a fortune estimated at £500,000. Nicknamed Pawkey by his friends, he maintained in the fashionable world the character of the bluff soldier, the pawky Scot. He died on 7th December, 1775. George Selwyn wrote the following to Lord Carlisle; " the General Scott is dead ... The place of Nickster which is in the Devil's gift and vacated by John Scott is not disposed of. We go into mourning on Thursday. The waiters are to have crepes round their arms and the dice to be black and the spots white, during the time of wearing weepers, and the dice box muffled "

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