Tour Scotland Photograph Walter Johnston Gravestone Edinburgh


Tour Scotland photograph of the Walter Johnston gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Scotland. Surgeon in the service of the East India Company who died July 17th, 1797.

The habitational surname originates in most cases from the place so called in Annandale, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This surname is derived from the genitive case of the given name John and tone or toun, meaning settlement, in Middle English; tun in Old English, literally meaning " John's town ". There are several similar place names in Scotland, including the city of Perth, which was once known as St. John's Toun.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Robert Lockart Ross Gravestone Edinburgh


Tour Scotland photograph of the Robert Lockart Ross gravestone in the churchyard cemetery in St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Scotland. Robert Ross of the 93rd Sutherland Highlanders.

There was an ancient Celtic earldom of Ross in the north east of Scotland, in what is now the county of Ross and Cromarty, between the Cromarty and Dornoch Firths, north of Inverness. The clan was sometimes referred to as Clan Anrias or Gille Andras or Gillanders, the old Celtic Earls of Ross, who were said to have descended from Gillianrias, the son of the hereditary abbot at the monastery of Applecross. In 1214, when King Alexander II led an army to the north to repress a rebellion by Donald Bane, who was claiming the throne, Clan Ross assisted the king and was rewarded with the title Earl of Ross. The Rosses fought at the Battle of Largs against the Vikings in 1263. The clan and their chief served with distinction in the Wars of Independence against the English. Their chief was captured at the Battle of Dunbar in 1296 and was taken as a prisoner to London. He was released but was captured again while protecting Robert the Bruce's wife and daughter at the shrine of St Duthac in Tain. The clan fought bravely at Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 and the earl's seal is one of those on the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320. Hugh Ross married a sister of Robert the Bruce and fell at the Battle of Halidon Hill in 1333.



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Tour Scotland Photograph David Dickson Memorial


Tour Scotland photograph of the Reverend David Dickson Memorial, St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Lothian Road, Edinburgh, Scotland. He died 28th July 1842, aged 63, after 40 years a minister of the Parish.

The Dickson surname, or, as is common in England, " Dixon, " is a patronymic surname, traditionally Scottish and thought to have originated upon the birth of the son of Richard Keith, son of Hervey de Keith, Earl Marischal of Scotland, and Margaret, daughter of the 3rd Lord of Douglas.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Ross Fountain Edinburgh


Tour Scotland photograph of The Ross Fountain, Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. An ornate iron fountain from the mid 19th Century located at the west end of the gardens. Figures depicted on the fountain include mermaids and four females depicting science, the arts, poetry and industry. A final female figure stands at the apex of the fountain. After being cast in the Durenne Ironworks at Haute-Marne in the early 1860s, it was displayed at The Great Exhibition in London in 1862 where it was seen by philanthropist and gun-maker Daniel Ross, who bought it for the City of Edinburgh. Having been transported in 122 pieces, it arrived in Leith in 1869. Great deliberation followed as to the most appropriate location for the statue, with it finally being installed in Prince's Street Gardens in 1872.



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