December 7 – 397 Ambrose Bishop of Milan Teacher of the Faith feast day.

521 Day on which Saint Columba was reputedly born in Donegal, Ireland. After being banished to Scotland, following battles over monastic possessions, he established a monastery on Iona. Columba is credited with converting King Bridei, the leader of the Picts in Scotland, to Christianity (if it had not been by Andrew 5 centuries earlier. Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)

1542 Mary Stewart, Queen of Scots born (tg29-51) per Sir Walter Scott’s history.

1545 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567) born. 1^st Duke of Albany

1543 before 7 December Daughter of William, 2^nd Lord Ruthven, and Janet, daughter of Patrick, Lord Halliburton of Dirleton. m. David Drummond, 2^nd Lord Drummond, ancestor of the Earls of Perth, One of 24 Lords of the Congregation.

David Drummond, 2^nd Lord Drummond was born between 1515 and 1517. Lord Drummond was the son of Walter Drummond, Master of Drummond and Lady Elizabeth Graham. Lord Drummond married, firstly, Margaret Stewart, daughter of Alexander Stewart, in 1535. Lord Drummond married, secondly, Lilias Ruthven, daughter of William Ruthven, 2^nd Lord Ruthven and Janet Halyburton, Lady Dirletoun, before 7 December 1543. He died in 1571. Lilias was the sister to Patrick 3^rd Lord Ruthven and Lord of the Congregation.

Lord Drummond succeeded to the title of 2^nd Lord Drummond [S., 1488] in 1519.³

Child of David Drummond, 2^nd Lord Drummond and Margaret Stewart – Sybilla Drummond

Children of David Drummond, 2nd Lord Drummond and Lilias Ruthven – Jean Drummond d. between Mar 1567 – 1568, Patrick Drummond, 3^rd Lord Drummond b. 1550, d. c 1602, James Drummond, 1^st Lord Maderty b. 1551, d. Sep 1623, Catherine Drummond b. 1552, Lilias Drummond b. 1553, d. 23 Jan 1636, Mary Drummond b. 1554, Anne Drummond⁶ b. 1555, d. 1592

Citations Derek Hughes, “re: 1^st Lord Drummond,” e-mail message to Darryl Lundy, 22 December 2004, 13 February 2005 and 2 March 2005.

G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 471. volume IV, page 470. volume XII/2, page 63. volume III, page 516.Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

Charles Mosley, editor, Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2608. Hereinafter cited as Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage, 107^th edition.

The original Seven Sisters – Ruthven style -There were seven Ruthven sisters four of whom married Lords of the Congregation (of which there were 24, so they married a sixth of these). This was a network of importance during the Reformation crisis of 1559. Lilias Ruthven was the eldest sister and married Lord Drummond; Katherine Ruthven married Grey Colin of Glenorchy; Barbara Ruthven married Patrick fourth Lord Grey; and Christian Ruthven married William Lundy, of that ilk. Two other sisters Jean and Margaret also married Protestants. only Cecila Ruthven’s husband, David Wemyss of that ilk, was actively opposed to the Lords of the Congregation. [Argyll, Arran, Atholl, Balnaves, Boyd, Campbell, Douglas, Drummond, Erskine, Gordon, Kirkcaldy, Lindsay, Mar, Morton, Moray, Murray, Ochiltree, Ogilvy, Rothes, Ruthven,Stewart, Willock, Wishart, and Minister Knox]   Marriage between noble houses in sixteenth century Scotland was usually contracted for reasons of political advantage which make this network of alliances unusual. Indeed, many other kin groups were split by the Reformation crisis.

Wemyss Crest: A swan Proper. Motto: JE PENSE. [from French: “I think”]. Chief: David Wemyss of that Ilk

map showing the location of the Huntingtower here labelled Ruthwe Castle.

Katherine Ruthven page

Haliburton Crest: A negro’s head couped at the shoulders and armed with a helmet ProperMotto: WATCH WELL Seat: Haliburton, Berwickshire

1569 RUTHVEN, WILLIAM, provost of Perth, fourth Lord Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie, received a grant of certain lands in South Kinkell (ib. No. 1902).

1648 Pride’s Purge, when troops under Colonel Thomas Pride removed opponents of Oliver Cromwell from Parliament by force of arms resulting in Rump Parliament.

1660 On December 7, 1660, Samuel Pepys records (in his diary) reading Thomas Fuller’s “The Church History of Britain”, which includes (Book VI) “The History of Abbeys in England”. Abbeys were an important part of Sir Walter Scott’s life. Though it is not included in Fuller’s work (2 centuries earlier), Scott is buried at Dryburgh Abbey. ‘ …I fell a-reading Fuller’s History of Abbys, and my wife in Great Cyrus till twelve at night, and so to bed.’ http://www.bordersabbeysway.fsnet.co.uk/ page41.html   Dryburgh Abbey was once under the control of Walter Scott’s great-grandfather, Thomas Halliburton. Halliburton’s family eventually sold their right to the Abbey, but retained the right to family burial there.

DRYBURGH ABBEY AND
SCOTT’S TOMB FROM A WATER-COLOUR SKETCH PAINTED BY JAMES ORROCK, R.I. The Border Country 1906

1745 – At a village near STOCKPORT [Cheshire – ANCESTRAL HOME OF HUMPHREY WARREN], the inhabitants fired upon the patrols of the Highlanders, who, in retaliation, set fire to the place. Most of the country-people were in arms, and all stragglers were killed or made prisoners. The sick men also, of the Jacobite army, who were necessarily left behind the march, were killed or treated with violence. [TG80-234]

1784 – Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842), Cunningham of Caprington 1162 2Stewart2Miller 2Simmons2Choate zoe

1787 Delaware ratifies the Constitution. With these Scots names. Adams Crosroads, Andersons Corner, Arden, Armstrong, Canterbury Chapeltown, Clayton, Drummond Hill, DUnleith, Faulkland, Fenwick Island, Garfield Park, Georgetown, Glasgow, Glasgow Station, Green Hill, Halls Landing, Hamilton Park, Houston, Kirkwood, McClellandville, McDonalds Crossroads, McKays Corners, Milltown, Milton, Monroe ParkMurrays Corner, New Market, Newport, Oakley, Red Lion, Ross, Salisbury Switch, Scotts Corner, Springfield Crossroads, Thompson, Westwoods,   Whitehall Crossroads, Woodside.

1835 Cleland Kinloch Simmons (Cleland is a small village near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland.) of Charleston South Carolina, joined 15 liberty lovers who boarded a schooner in New Orleans on December 7, 1835 to rescue Texas. The shipping notices offered splendid accommodations, but gave a small cabin in the Gulf of Mexico swells. To rescue the Alamo.

1842 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)

1937 – Thad Cochran, American politician, senator from Mississippi born.

1941 Pearl Harbor attacked. (Prime Minister) Churchill (clan Montgomery) gets his best nights sleep in years, knowing the United States will enter the World War unrestrained. The United States’ productive capacity is ten times that of the combined Nazi and fascist controlled European mainland and Asian controlled Japan.

1991 September 3 issue. World War II Commemorative issue. On December 7, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, provoking a declaration of war against the island nation, and four days later Germany and Italy declared war against the United States.

usstampgallery.com. The Axis had been fighting the Scots since 1939.

December 7 1942   Royal Navy submarine HMS Tuna (N94) which left from Holy Loch in Scotland arrives at Gironde estuary off France. During the raid each canoe’s load would be two men, eight limpet mines, three sets of paddles, a compass, a depth sounding reel, repair bag, torch, camouflage net, waterproof watch, fishing line, two hand grenades, rations and water for six days, a spanner to activate the mines and a magnet to hold the canoe against the side of cargo ships. The men also carried a .45 ACP pistol and a Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife.  Space photo with both Scotland and Bay of Biscay. Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bay of Biscay port of Bordeaux Harbour. British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill (clan Montgomery) believed the mission shortened the World War II by six months.

1950 (clan Crichton, Creighton) Kim movie released.   This Joseph Rudyard Kipling (clan MacDonald) novel made into a movie, has as the British hero Colonel Creighton. Kim is a 1950 adventure film made in Technicolor by MGM. It was directed by Victor Saville and produced by Leon Gordon (1896 – January 4, 1960 British playwright and Producer for MGM (clan Gordon) from a screenplay by Helen Deutsch, Leon Gordon and Richard Schayer,

The film starred Dean Stockwell, Errol Flynn (name draw), and Paul Lukas. The music by André Previn. The film was shot on location in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, India, as well as the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, California, due to its resemblance to the Khyber Pass. Of particular interest is the location filming at La Martiniere College in Lucknow. Kim (Dean Stockwell), an orphan boy in 1885 India during the British Raj, works at times for his friend Mahbub Ali (Errol Flynn), a roguish horse trader who is also a secret agent for the British. Mahbub Ali becomes aware of a Russian-backed rebellion.  Poster. A scene shows a map with the Russian empire to the north, with a planned invasion of Afghanistan, through the Khyber Pass, to invade India.   The final scene has the Scots’ pipes of the regiment heading toward the Khyber Pass. Fast forward a half century from the movie and a century from the book, to 7 December 2001,  and NATO is back in Afghanistan at war.

2015 The Year Donald Trump Tyrannized the Presidential Race. Rolling Stone magazine.

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