August 27 1331 Nicola Orsini Count of Nola Campania Naples Italy born 27 August 1331 – 14 February 1399) and Jeanne de Sabran (Gard, France) had Sueva Orsini wife of Francois de Baux (del Balzo) (Baux de Provence France), 1st Duke of Andria, (Apulia Italy) parent of Margherita del Balzo, parents of Jacquetta of Luxembourg (1415/1416 – 30 May 1472). Jacquetta married Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and had Elizabeth Woodville Queen consort to Edward IV House of York, King of England. Elizabeth and Edward had Elizabeth of York who married Henry VII King of England. Elizabeth and Henry had Margaret Tudor, who became Queen of Scots. Thus, Orsini’s 4th great grand son was ancestor of all Scots royalty since; and Orsini’s 3rd great grand son in law was ancestor of all remaining English royalty.

1450 St Salvator’s College, St Andrew’s University, founded, as ‘the College of the Holy Saviour’ by James Kennedy, Bishop of St Andrews and second Chancellor of the University. Also known as the Old College, St Salvator’s was refounded as a college of philosophy or arts in 1579 and in 1747 was amalgamated with St Leonard’s College to form the United College of St Salvator and St Leonard.

St Salvator’s

1534 David Straiton and Norman Gourlay, burned at the stake, as disciples of the Reformation. James Stewart 5th King of Scots was determined to persecute the enemies of truth. Tytler’s Britannica History of Scotland.

1568 Sometime in August.   RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, provost of Perth, 4th Lord Ruthven and 1st Earl of Gowrie, stopped at the Fords of Tay the Earl of Huntly, a supporter of the queen, who was coming to attend the parliament, accompanied with a thousand horse (Calderwood, History, ii. 418).

1619 David Calderwood, (1575-1650) sailed for Holland. In 1617, while James VI (1st of England) was in Scotland, a Remonstrance, which had been drawn up by the Presbyterian clergy, was placed in Calderwood’s hands. He was summoned to St Andrews and examined before the king, but neither threats nor promises could make him deliver up (rat out) the roll of signatures to the Remonstrance. Calderwood was deprived of his charge, committed to prison at St Andrews and afterwards removed to Edinburgh. The privy council ordered him to be banished from the kingdom for refusing to acknowledge the sentence of the High Commission. 390 years later lists of donors who supported California Proposition 8 are published (rat out) for persecution, threats, and job loss.

1641 Sometime in August a Covenanting army plunged into England and captured Newcastle and Durham. Since the ‘Long Parliament’ sympathized with the Covenanters, the Scots army returned home in August 1641 with an indemnity and the King’s (Charles) undertaking to ratify the new acts, including the abolition of the episcopacy in Scotland. The Long Parliament’s’ Grand Remonstrance and attack on the English episcopate then opened the English Civil War. YYMA 22.

1666 Robert Blair Died at Aberdour, Fife Scotland, on 27 August 1666, and was buried in the parish churchyard. (Blair of that Ilk – Ayrshire). A Scottish Nonconformist divine, Covenanter, and one of the 1643 Westminster Divines. Blair married first Beatrix, daughter of Robert Hamilton, merchant, in right of whom Blair became a burgess of Edinburgh on 16 July 1626; she died in July 1632, aged 27. Their issue were two sons and a daughter: James, one of the ministers of Dysart, Robert, and

Ceres Parish Church from 1806.

Jean, who married William Row, minister of Ceres. His second wife was Katherine, daughter of Hugh Montgomerie of Braidstane, afterwards Viscount Airds. Their issue were seven sons and a daughter. One of these sons, David, was father of Robert Blair, the poet of the Grave, and another, Hugh, grandfather of Dr. Hugh Blair. Wikipedia.

Aberdour Harbour  St. Filian’s Church and cemetery.

1745 Chevalier versus Sir John Cope move toward pass of Corry Arrack. This mountain is ascended by a part of Marshal Wade’s military road, which attains the summit by a long succession [seventeen] of zig-zags, or traverses, gaining slowly and gradually on the steep and rugged elevation on the south side, the Devil’s Staircase. The battle never occurred. Cope’s army headed to Inverness. Although identified by Sir Walter Scott in Tales of a Grandfather volume 3, as the young Chevalier, it was Bonnie Prince Charlie. Prince James Francis Edward Stewart or Stuart, was the old Chevalier de St. George (1688 – 1766), son of the deposed King James II of England and VII of Scotland by his second wife Mary of Modena, kno Cope at Dalwhinny, learning that PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART had occupied the Corryarrack Pass, determined to avoid him and march for Inverness. Reached, Ruthven, 27th; Dalrachny, 28th; Inverness, 29th (G.C.T. 47).

Route to Inverness.  The Old Pretender and ‘James VIII’ by his supporters, circa 1718.

1745 August 27. PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD STUART Marched to Aberchalder (L.P. 442).8 Joined by 400 Glengarry MacDonalds, the MacDonalds of Glencoe (120 men, H.H. II7),’ and some of the Grants of Glenmoriston (J.M.B., L.P. 442), but deserted by some of Keppoch’s men.

1748 James Thomson died. Born in Ednam in Roxburghshire around 11 September 1700 and baptised on 15 September. The fourth of nine children of Thomas Thomson and Beatrix Thomson (née Trotter). Beatrix Thomson was born in Fogo, Berwickshire and was a distant relation of the house of Hume.

Ednam Parish Church.

Thomas Thomson was the Presbyterian minister of Ednam until eight weeks after Thomson’s birth, www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/churches/

when he was admitted as minister of Southdean, where Thomson spent most of his early years.   Printer Andrew Millar VI (clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter). College of Edinburgh in autumn 1715, destined for the Presbyterian ministry. At Edinburgh he studied metaphysics, Logic, Ethics, Greek, Latin and Natural Philosophy.

Southdean Parish Church.

 

Spring a Poem etc. London Printed for A. Millar, at Buchanan’s Head over against St. Clement’s Church in the Strand. 1729.

 

1776 Battle of Long Island. New York, United States. History of the Scots Guards (1642–1804) fifteen men from each company of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards and the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, formed a composite battalion of Foot Guards to be sent to North America. Fraser’s 71st Highlanders or 71st Regiment of Foot. 42nd Foot now the Black Watch,

The Delaware Regiment at the Battle of Long Island. Kings County, Long Island, New York Battle of Brooklyn.

1831 Joseph Smith the Prophet, arrived at Kirtland, Ohio. (Clan Mack of Inverness, Malcolm King of Scots). Doctrine and Covenants 63. Sometime in late August. All liars, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie, and the whoremonger, and the sorcerer, shall have their part in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

1937 Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Descended from Mack of Inverness (clan Mack), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. Ethel Reynolds Smith dies after suffering with an illness for four years.

1940 August 27: Howard W. Hunter, called as bishop of newly organized El Sereno Ward, Pasadena California Stake. Afterwards became 14th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1994. President Howard W. Hunter: The Lord’s “Good and Faithful Servant” Ensign Apr 1995. The clan Hunters are from Paisley Renfrewshire Scotland.

Renfrewshire is at the end of Firth of Clyde in Clydesdale. Paisley is next to Glasgow.

1941 Twin-motored transport plane, 20 cent issue.

1941, the (clan Douglas) Douglas DC-3 twin-engine planes of pre-World War II were being used widely and successfully, and
 the new four-engine planes were being brought into service quickly because of 
war needs. The DC-3 featured such advances as all-metal stressed-skin construction, a
 radial engine, internally braced wings, retractable landing gear, and the 
controllable-pitch propeller. usstampgallery.com

1943 HM Queen Mary, Cunard Line, built Clydebank Scotland, converted to troopship. August 27 – 31, 1943 Winston Churchill returns to Gourock, Scotland, with 15,116 troops.

1958 Lincoln & Douglas debating 100th anniversary.

Debates were conducted at Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charles, Galesburg, Quincy, and Alton, Illinois. Each debate attracted crowds of between 10,000 and 15,000 persons. The debates were for the 1858 contest for U.S. senator from Illinois. Douglas (clan Douglas) won the election. Allowing Lincoln to become such a national figure that two years later he was elected president.  4 cents.

1971 Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Descended from Mack of Inverness (clan Mack), Scotland and Malcolm King of Scots. Presides at the Church’s first area conference, which is held in Manchester, England.

2000 Fictional wedding between TV series fictional Charlotte York (actriess Kristin Davis) and fictional Dr. Trey MacDougal (fictional clan MacDougal) in fictional New York City. How the beautiful people live.

Decked out in kilt by actor Kyle MacLachlan.

 

2005 Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina. The United States Coast Guard began pre-positioning resources in a ring around the expected impact zone and activated more than 400 reservists. On August 27, it moved its personnel out of the New Orleans region prior to the mandatory evacuation.[12] Aircrews from the Aviation Training Center, in Mobile, staged rescue aircraft from Texas to Florida. Wikipedia. Rear Admiral Robert Duncan, Commander of the Eighth Coast Guard District, headquartered in New Orleans, will participate in behalf of the US Coast Guard.

2012 John Christopher Stevens, Ambassador to Libya, assassinated in Benghazi Libya September 11, 2012, spoke English, Arabic, and French, and graduated from the National War College in 2010.

In this photo posted on the U.S. Embassy Tripoli Facebook page on August 27, 2012, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, left, walks with an unidentified translator during a tour of Assaraya al-Hamra, or the Red Castle in Tripoli, Libya.

Read more: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/09/28/ambassador-j-christopher-stevens-mother-spells-out-family-legacy-136422

Ambassador Stevens descends from Lieutenant Duncan McDougall Senior, an officer in the 84th Foot. (Clan Shaw and McDougall)

 

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