August 15 – 15 The Blessed Virgin Mary feast day.

1057 Lulach, Macbeth’s stepson, ascended the throne and was crowned at Scone. Macbeth Rí Alban killed in battle by Malcolm III Rí Alban

Scottorum basileus, at Lumphanan, near Aberdeen.

Macbeth and the witches by Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli) (1741-1825)

Lumphanan, on the far left, lower corner, of this Map section, is 25 miles west from New Aberdeen, on the far right. The 1818 map is styled Pinkerton’s Map of North Scotland. Also in the vicinity are Bandare, Midmarr, Hills of Ear, Midmarr, Echf, Leuchans, Housedale Mains, Skeene, Cairnie, Kingswells, Newhills, Woodside, Counteswell, Oldmill, Ferry Hill, Hillton, and Nigg.

1308 Battle of the Pass of Brander in which John MacDougall of Lorne who was supporting King Edward II, was defeated by King Robert I (the Bruce)

The Pass of Brander is at Bridge of Awe, Lorne, Scotland, about at the M of Macdonald.

1388 Battle of Chevy Chase. The Scots marched north, encamped at Otterburn, in Redesdale, 31 miles from Newcastle. They waited for Sir Henry Percy the ‘Hotspur’ (English). The day before Douglas challenged Percy to retrieve Percy’s pennon. Percy discovered the Earl of Douglas (with 2,000 foot, and 300 men at arms) at Otterburn was not with the main army of the Scots. Douglas gathered 600 lances and 8,000 foot to pursue the Scots. Douglas protected his sleeping camp from surprise with a barricade of wagons and baggage, defended by camp followers. The English were moving by moon light, but not as fast as the Scots. The Earl of Douglas, wielded his battle axe with both hands to cut his way into the thickest of the enemy, but was mortally wounded. The Scots, ignorant of their leaders death, were impulsed by his furious assault to gain a complete victory. Hotspur and his brother were taken prisoners, with all the English of rank. Tytler’s Britannica 79.  The Cheviot Hills on the border of England and Scotland about where the right angle on the border at the end of Middle March in the map.

1416 Treaty of Canterbury, acknowledging English claims to France. Hungarian King (later Holy Roman Emperor 1433–1437) Sigismund of Hungary, Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368–1437), King of Hungary, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia made a visit to Henry in hopes of making peace between England and France.  Sigismund, aged circa 50, unknown artist in the 1420s — the only contemporary portrait

 

1437 Sir Simon McDuck born. Died 1509. He was treasurer of the Knight Templars and responsible for hiding their treasure underneath fictional McDuck Castle. Or so the myth is told.

1561 Mary set sail from France. (TG30-86) for Scotland.

1600 Gowrie conspiracy. P. 108. William Row, was settled minister at Strathmiglo, in the shire of Fyfe, about the year 1600, and continued there for several years. Row was one of those ministers who refused to give public thanks for the king’s [James VI] deliverance from his danger in Gowrie’s conspiracy [Ruthvens’ assassination August 1, 1600. Ruthven descended from Margaret Tudor and Henry Stewart, Lord Methven, and was near kin, for the throne of England], until the truth of that conspiracy was made to appear. This refusal brought upon Row the king’s [James 6th] displeasure; Row was summoned to appear before the king [James 6th] and council at Stirling, soon after. On the day appointed for his compearance, two noblemen were sent, the one before the other, to meet him on the road, and, under the pretence [P. 109] of friendship, to inform him, that the council had a design upon his life, that Row might be prevailed on to decline going up to the council; the first met him nigh Row’s own house, the second a few miles from Stirling, but Mr. Row [the abbreviation for Minister was Mr.] told them, that Row would not, by disobedience to the summons, make himself justly liable to the pains of law, and proceeded to Stirling, to the amazement of the king [James 6th] and his court. When challenged for disbelieving the truth of that conspiracy, Row told them, That one reason of his hesitation was, That one Henderson, who was said to have confessed that Gowrie hired him to kill the king, and to have been found armed in his majesty’s chamber for that purpose, was, not only suffered to live, but rewarded; whereas, said Row, “if I had seen the king’s life in hazard, and not ventured my life to rescue him, I think, I deserved not to live.”

Biographia Scoticana: OR, A

 BRIEF HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF THE 

LIVES, CHARACTERS, and MEMORABLE
 TRANSACTIONS of the most eminent 

SCOTS WORTHIES, Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and others: From Mr. Patrick Hamilton, who was born about the year of our Lord 1503, and suffered martyrdom at St. Andrews, Feb. 1527, to Mr. James Renwick, who was executed in the Grass-market of Edinburgh Feb. 17, 1688. together with a succinct Account of the Lives of other seven eminent Divines, and Sir Robert Hamilton of Preston, who died about, or shortly after the Revolution. as also, An Appendix, containing a short historical Hint of the wicked Lives and miserable Deaths of some of the most remarkable apostates and bloody persecutors in Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. Collected from historical Records, Biographical Accounts, and other authenticated Writings:—The whole including a Period of near Two Hundred Years. By John Howie – 178181

Ruthven, Earl Gowrie, was the Provost of Perth.

1645 Battle of Kilsyth Covenanting army. A Committee of the Estates, consisting of Argyle, Lanark, and Crawford-Lindsay,

Crawford of drongan and Haining 1100 2douglas2Stewart 2Ruthven2Kinchin 2jared2Simmons 2Choate zoe

had been nominated to attend his army, and control General Baillie’s motions; and the Earl of Lindsay, insisted that the veteran general should risk the last regular army which the Covenanters possessed in Scotland, in the perils of a decisive battle. Montrose and Highanders, stripped of shirts, with broadswords attacked and won. Clan Ogilvy supported the Royalist cause. They fought under clan Graham, the James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose and fought with him. William 11th earl of Angus, 1st Marquis of Douglas fought with Montrose. Anderson Scot’s History v. 2/p. 48.

Douglas 1036 2Stewart 2Ruthven 2Kinchin 2Jared 2Simmons 2Choate – D 2Montgomberie 2Blair 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – D 2Hamilton 2Stewart 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate – D 2Carlyle 2Semple 2Montgomery 2Cochrane 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate

Battle of Kilsyth

1715 – Skirmish at High Bridge. Governor of Fort Augustus, who, apprehensive for the safety of Fort William, which lay nearest to the disaffected clans, sent a detachment of two companies under Captain John Scott, afterwards [TG76-84] General Scott. He marched early in the morning of the 16th of August 1715, with the purpose of reaching Fort-William before nightfall.

1771 Sir Walter Scott 1st Baronet born, (1771–1832) Scottish poet and novelist. College Wynd Old Town of Edinburgh Midlothian, d 21 sep 1832 abbotsford rosburgh.

Abbotsford. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P. 41

Scott survived a childhood bout of polio in 1773 that left him lame. [A cure for polio was 175 years in the future.] During the winter of 1786–87 the 15-year-old Scott saw Robert Burns at one of these salons, for what was to be their only meeting. When Burns noticed a print illustrating the poem “The Justice of the Peace” and asked who had written the poem, only Scott knew that it was by John Langhorne, and was thanked by Burns. The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border 1796. On a trip to the Lake District with old college friends he met Charlotte Genevieve Charpentier (or Carpenter), daughter of Jean Charpentier of Lyon in France, and ward of Lord Downshire in Cumberland. After three weeks of courtship, Scott proposed and they were married on Christmas Eve 1797. They had five children, of whom only 4 survived by the time of Scott’s death. In 1799 he was appointed Sheriff-Depute of the County of Selkirk, based in the Royal Burgh of Selkirk. The Lady of the Lake, printed in 1810 and set in the Trossachs

LOCH KATRINE to Trossachs. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company.  P.289.

The Trossachs. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company.

   Portions of the German translation of this work were set to music by Franz Schubert. One of these songs, Ellens dritter Gesang, is popularly labelled as “Schubert’s Ave Maria”. Marmion, published in 1808, produced some of his most memorable lines. Wikipedia.

Canto VI. Stanza 17 reads:

Raeburn’s portrait of Sir Walter Scott in 1822.

“I was also present [August 22, 23, 1877] in the St. George Temple and witnessed the appearance of the Spirits *** And also others,*** .Who came to Wilford Woodruff and demanded that their baptism and endowments be done. Wilford Woodruff was baptized for all of them. While I and Brothers J.D.T. McAllister and David H Cannon (who were witnesses to the request) were endowed for them. *** . They also prepared the peoples hearts so they would be ready to receive the restored gospel when the Lord sent it again to men on the earth.” (Personal journal of James Godson Bleak-Chief Recorder of the St. George Temple, Clerk to Brigham Young).

 1780 Lord Cornwallis defeated General Gates, lost 900 killed, 1000 prisoners. Tytler’s Britannica 252.

1822 The King of Scots (George IV) visits Leith. The first occasion since the Revolution (of 1688) the Monarch had come to Scotland. Festivities continue until the 27th of August. Tytler’s Britannica 278.

  1. David Glasgow Farragut (July 5, 1801 – August 14, 1870) was a flag officer [Admiral] of the United States Navy during the American Civil War. At the Battle of Mobile Bay, His was: “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” by U.S. Navy tradition. Farragut was born in 1801 to Elizabeth Shine (b. 1765 – d. 1808), of North Carolina Scots descent.

Farragut as he appears in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. In 1877 Seventeen Eminent Scots’ Spirits appeared to and requested Baptism from Wilford Woodruff, President of the Saint George Temple, WASHINGTON, Utah 22-23 August 1877. Woodruff’s eminent men – Scots

 1905 Hermann Alexander Brück (15 August 1905 in Berlin, Germany – 4 March 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1957 to 1975, which was the title of the director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh until 1995. His team created the automated instrumentation for scanning stellar and intergalactic images. This technology enabled spectra to be reduced in minutes rather than months, Wikipedia.

 1934 Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back. Released.

 1935 William Penn Adair “Will” Rogers died in Alaska.. One quarter Cherokee. Will Rogers’ great-grandfather, Robert Rogers, was Scotchman. (Main source: Will Rogers: a Biography, by Ben Yogoda.) Born November 4, 1879.

http://www.goancestry.com/forums/index.php?/blog/6/entry-20-the-rogers-connection-myth-or-fact/ An eathquake in Managua in 1931, brought Will Rogers to survey and arrange relief.

Nicaragua a Will Rogers Aero Homenaje Interior 1931-1939 campo de avicacion de Managua 1 centavo. American Bank Note Company

Nicaragua a Will Rogers Aero Homenaje Interior 1931-1939 PAA Rogers desembarganod en Managua 2 Centavos, American Bank Note Company.

Nicaragua a Will Rogers Aero Homenaje Interior 1931-1939 Managua. Rogers en la Caseta de la P.A.A. 3 Centavos, American Bank Note Company.

Nicaragua a Will Rogers Aero Homenaje Interior 1931-1939. Rogers recibido por Los Marinos Americanos. 4 Centavos. American Bank Note Company. Stars and Stripes flag.

Nicaragua a Will Rogers Aero Homenaje Interior 1931-1939. Managua Ardiendo. 5 Centavos. American Bank Note Company.

 

1972 Ben Affleck, Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972), actor/writer/director, father was Scottish-American, Affleck won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for the screenplay for Good Will Hunting (1997). The surname “Affleck” is Scottish. Affleck Castle, formerly Auchinleck Castle, which stands on the western outskirts of the village of Monikie in Angus, toward the centre of the parish. It consists of a tower built on high ground. The castle was inhabited as late as 1746, although it has since been used as a granary. The 17th -century Panmure House, seat of the Earl of Panmure, was located to the east of the village, although it was demolished in the 1950s.  Monikie is west of Arbroath and northeast of Dundee.

1978 Amanda Beth Choate (nee Allen) born.

2014 Anstruther’s harbour festival weekend celebrates the royal burgh’s maritime traditions. The Festival includes ceilidhs, pipe bands, dance displays, classic boats, competitive rowing races, market stalls and children’s entertainment, as well as the well supported yacht muster with a variety of boats gathering at the historic harbour.

http://www.welcometofife.com/events-fife/anstruther-harbour-festival/

  

2015

 

 

Disclaimer: The author of each article published on this web site owns his or her own words. The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of Utah Standard News or official policies of the USN and may actually reflect positions that USN actively opposes. No claim in public domain or fair use.    © John Choate