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Explore high peaks and bonnie banks
MOUNTAIN MAJESTY
DUMBARTON CASTLE
CONIC HILL | SIR JOHN SINCLAIR
Stronghold on the Clyde
From Highland terriers to Eriskay ponies
TOURING SCOTLAND BY LAND & SEA
Hiking across the Mamores AN ACCOUNT OF TURBULENT TIMES | JOHN LEYDEN
TOP 10 SCOTTISH BREEDS
LITERARY TREASURES
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NATIONAL WINNERS REVEALED
DR LIVINGSTONE, I PRESUME?
BORDER FORTRESSES
Scotland’s most famous explorer
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FIFE COASTAL PATH
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The Myth of Siol Alpin | ANCESTRY
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THE MYTH OF SIOL ALPIN A cluster of seven Scottish clans supposedly descend from Alpin, father of Kenneth MacAlpine, King of the Picts. New evidence suggests otherwise
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t is told that Siol Alpin (the Seed of Alpin, from the Gaelic, Sìol Ailpein) is a cluster of seven Scottish clans that trace their descent from Alpin, father of Cináed mac Ailpín (Kenneth MacAlpine), the King of the Picts who is also considered in Scots tradition to be the first King of Scots. The seven clans of Siol Alpin are said to be: Grant, Gregor, MacAulay, Macfie, Mackinnon, Macnab, and MacQuarrie. The myth extends further into a ‘family tree’ of these clans. MacNab is slightly off to one side, but all the others are held to descend from Gregor or Giric, with the MacGregor line the senior (See: Figure 1). There are a number of complications here. Firstly, why no Clan MacAlpine? Surely if Alpin is the progenitor, there
must be a clan? No, say the purists – Alpin is the seed or autochthon, and the Clans are the progeny. In 2017, the MacAlpines received a Commission for a Commander from the Lyon Court, who may go on to become chief. So, there will be a House of MacAlpine at last, but not a clan, which they never were (no ancestral lands, chief or quasi-military structure). Secondly, why seven clans? Well, it’s a magic number, harmonious to us for some reason. In 1672 Isaac Newton decided there are seven colours in a prismatic spectrum such as the rainbow, on no evidence whatsoever beyond there being seven notes in the Western European musical scale, seven days of the week, seven heavenly bodies known in his time, and so forth. For
what it’s worth, Newton was into alchemy and a fan of the ancient Greek sophists. Thirdly, under the system of Tanistry, chiefship in some generations might have passed through the mother – but we have to assume the father was in some way related and, in any case, each of the seven clans claims descent from a single male patriarch. Finally, all of this must have happened around AD900. Such chronicles as exist which record these individuals are contradictory as to their exact relationships, were written long after the events and people described, and were often altered later to justify the rule by one particular line. The family tree of Siol Alpin is presented as if it has historical validity. But does it? Step forward W. F. Skene.
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Hector the Hero | HISTORY
Words by GAVIN D. SMITH
Hector the hero
A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last defiance to dark Death is hurled, A last wild challenge shocks the sunlit skies. – Robert Service
A tragic tale of the Private who became a General
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n the 25 March 1903, in room 105 of the Regina Hotel in Paris, MajorGeneral Sir Hector Macdonald DSO KCB killed himself with a pistol shot to his head. So ended one of the most remarkable military careers the British Empire had ever seen. For Macdonald was described by his biographer Thomas F G Coates in 1900 as ‘The Private who became a General’ and his spectacular rise through the ranks was almost unprecedented in that era, as were the controversial circumstances of his death. Macdonald was born on 4 March 1853 into a Gaelic-speaking crofting family at Rootfield, near Dingwall in Ross-shire. He was one of five brothers and his father supplemented his modest crofting income with work as a stonemason. Aged 15, Macdonald was apprenticed to a Dingwall draper, before working for William Mackay’s Royal Clan Tartan and Tweed Warehouse in Inverness. Despite this steady employment, the young Macdonald yearned for a life in the army and in 1870 he joined the Inverness-shire Highland Rifle Volunteers. A year later he enlisted in the 92nd Gordon Highlanders and proved a keen and competent soldier, rising to the rank of sergeant in December 1873. Posted to India, he displayed a natural flair for languages and learned Hindustani, Urdu and Pashto. During the Second Afghan War (1878– 1880) his leadership skills and personal courage led to him being offered the choice of either a Victoria Cross or a commission; Macdonald opted for the latter, as it was an extremely rare opportunity to become
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an officer and further one’s military career in such a fashion. And so it was that, on 7 January 1880, the 27-year-old colour sergeant Hector Macdonald left the ranks after nine years and moved to the officers’ mess as a 2nd Lieutenant in the famous Gordon Highlanders. He went on to serve with distinction in the First Boer War during 1880–1881, before returning to Britain after a decade of overseas service. While in Edinburgh, he met the Duncan family, whose daughter Christina was aged 15 – Macdonald was 31. He and Christina fell in love, got married in secret, and she went on to give birth to a son, Hector, in March 1888. However, the couple were never to live together as man and wife, and saw each other on just four occasions during a period of 19 years. It was only after his untimely death that the British public became aware of Macdonald’s marriage. His military career progressed apace, with the award of the Distinguished Service Order in 1889 and promotion to the rank of Major two years later. However, it was for his role in the Battle of Omdurman, which took place on 2 September 1898, that Macdonald received popular recognition. The British commander was Lord Kitchener and his tactical error in exposing the flanks of his army to the enemy meant that potential disaster was only averted by the swift actions of Macdonald, who moved his troops into position to defend Kitchener’s forces. Back in Britain, Macdonald was seized on by the public as the true ‘hero of Omdurman,’ rendering Kitchener dangerously jealous,
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PRAISE FOR HECTOR THE HERO Having been born in Elgin and raised in Edinburgh, the Exploring Edinburgh article in the May issue of Scotland Magazine was of great interest to me. However, the article by Gavin D. Smith, Hector the Hero, was truly an interesting revelation into the amazing and tragic life of this unsung Scottish hero. For such a brilliant and heroic soldier to be outcast by snobbish British society because of some unproven charges is disgraceful. Fortunately, his true friends, the Scots, came to his aid to make sure he was never forgotten and give him a proper burial in his beloved Scotland. Eric A. Dow, Waukesha, WI, USA I wanted to share my utter delight in receiving the May issue and seeing the article listing on the cover. Hector The Hero immediately jumped out to me, because at my first Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, in 1998 (I have been to five more since then!), they played Hector The Hero. It brought me to tears, and thanks to having immediately bought the show CD, it has done so on more than one occasion since then. In fact, I have stipulated that it be one of the songs played at any memorial service after I am gone. I always imagined Hector to be some mythological creature, or perhaps a cohort of Robert The Bruce. What a surprise to know that he was a real, live, breathing Scotsman, albeit one who came to such a tragic demise. Anyway, as always, thanks for a wonderful issue. I’m ‘homesick’. Slàinte! Michael Hart, Houston, TX, USA
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SCOTLAND’S LINEN INDUSTRY In your May 2019 issue of Scotland Magazine, a writer wrote about the difficulties in finding information on their ancestors as it related to their work in the linen trade. While researching my ancestors who worked as ‘flax mill finishers’ in Renfrewshire, I came upon an amazing book at a local book sale that provides detailed information on the linen trade including over 200 pages on Scotland’s linen industry alone. It is titled The Linen Trade Ancient and Modern by Alex J. Warden. It was originally published in 1864 but was republished for the third time in 1967 by Frank Cass & Co. I looked in my copy and found information relating to both Aberdeenshire and Forfarshire. A Google search for ‘ABE Books’, which is a web portal on used books around the world, found not only this book but also others written by the same author including some on Angus and Forfarshire. All of them are available for purchase from a number of used book stores throughout England. Shirley Waldon, Victoria, BC, Canada REGIONAL FOCUS | Edinburgh
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cotland’s capital evolved around the 6th century onwards with the merging of the Pictish and Celtic kingdoms. Its development was strongly influenced by the Saxon, Norman and Viking settlers who seized upon its strategic east-coast location on an estuary of the North Sea, not to mention the settlement’s seven hills. Scottish Arthurian legend suggests it was the site of an ancient Scottish Camelot. A long-ago Prince of Strathclyde named Arthur is said to have built a fortress either on Castle Rock or on that other volcanic
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outcrop known as Salisbury Crags, with Arthur’s Seat at the centre of the royal park which later became known as Holyrood Park. Be that as it may, in the 7th century a king of Northumbria called Edwin gained possession of whatever fortification existed at the time, and the encampment he created became known as Edwin’s Burgh. It was not until the 11th century, however, that St Margaret, the second wife of King Malcolm III, saw the real potential. This remarkable woman, a Saxon princess and a granddaughter of the English King Edmund Ironside, had fled north from the
advances of the Norman invasion of 1066. Capturing the heart of a rough and illeducated king, she introduced the Roman religion to Scotland, along with fresh ideas of government. Although the King preferred to keep his headquarters at Dunfermline, on the far side of the Firth of Forth, Margaret built a little chapel of worship on the highest part of the Castle Rock. Of the buildings of that time, it alone remains. On receiving the news of her husband’s death at the Battle of Alnwick, Queen Margaret herself died here in 1093. She was later beatified.
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LEFT: A portrait of Sir John Sinclair in his regimental uniform by Sir Henry Raeburn, painted in 1794
ith an overweening selfconfidence, Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster’s achievements were remarkable. His industry was unparalleled, and his motivations were entirely pure – for the good of his fellow man and his nation. He exchanged letters with the greatest men in Europe and earned the esteem of George Washington. And yet his ponderous self-importance, his lack of humour, and his penchant for being unable to mind his own business made him an irritation to many of his contemporaries, if not a joke. The recently widowed Sir Walter Scott for whom Sinclair tried to provide a second wife described him as an ‘unutterable idiot’. Sinclair was born in Caithness in 1754 and had inherited about a quarter of the county by the time he was 16. He attended university in both Edinburgh and Glasgow before studying at Oxford, and completed his education by qualifying as a barrister in England and an advocate in Scotland. He entered parliament as a Member for Caithness aged 26 and his political career would last more than 30 years. Sinclair was a tall, slim man whose most striking intellectual characteristics were dogged determination and a formidable work rate. Well into old age, he worked for 12 hours every day and allowed himself two and a half hours for meals and relaxation. He devoted his life to the
promotion of improvement, mainly in agriculture. And although he may have saved the nation during an economic crisis by suggesting detaching the British pound from the price of bullion, he was never high in Prime Minister William Pitt’s favour. Sinclair thought government should lead the process of improvement; Pitt did not. He was allowed to set up the Board of Agriculture and became its president but the organisation was given little power and ended up being financed from Sinclair’s own pocket. He opposed Pitt’s taxation policies, which got him fired from the board and it soon folded. He improved his own estates in Caithness and introduced the Cheviot sheep. He raised two battalions of Fencibles during the war against the French and Napoleon, and the famous portrait depicts him in the regimental uniform that he designed himself. His talents are best shown in his greatest legacy, the Statistical Account of Scotland, which he began in 1790. He wanted facts, and coined the word ‘statistics’ in English meaning facts, not just figures. How could one carry out improvements or increase the sum of human happiness unless one knew what was the state of affairs before one started? So he wrote to the ministers of the 938 parishes of Scotland and asked them. It had been tried before but herding cats was nothing compared to asking the
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Charles Douglas explores Scotland’s literary legacy and how it inspired contemporary writers
INTRIGUE A coast-to-coast tour of five Scottish border strongholds
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cotland has spawned more than its fair share of extraordinary writing. Sir Walter Scott captivated Europe throughout the 1800s with the historical intrigues of Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and Guy Mannering. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave the world Sherlock Holmes, the private detective who first appeared in A Study in Scarlet in 1887. Robert Louis Stevenson left readers spellbound with Treasure Island (1883) and Jekyll and Hyde (1886). JM Barrie adapted his little-known novel The
Little White Bird into the timeless stage play Peter Pan (1904). Another childhood favourite, The Wind in the Willows, was published by Kenneth Graham in 1908 and John Buchan gained fame after his novel The 39 Steps was published in 1915. From the mid-20th century onwards Scottish authors such as George Mackay Brown, Sir Compton Mackenzie and Muriel Spark made their mark with captivating classics Greenvoe (1972), Whisky Galore (1947) and The Prime
of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) respectively. Scottish authors began to find significant commercial success towards the end of the 20th century. Iain Banks’ The Wasp Factory (1984) was named one of the top 100 books of the 20th century in a poll by The Independent and Rosamund Pilcher sold 60 million copies of her novels worldwide, notably The Shell Seekers (1987). There are countless others, but those giants of Scottish literature have paved the way for today’s literary genius. THIS PAGE: The ruins at Caerlaverock Castle
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