July 18 1289 Edward I issues Edict of Expulsion by which Jews were expelled from England, and formally overturned in 1656 by Oliver Cromwell. Since there was never a corresponding expulsion from Scotland, some migrated to Scotland. David Daiches wrote in his autobiographical Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood that there are grounds for stating that Scotland is the only European country that has no history of state persecution of Jews. The Declaration of Arbroath (6 April 1320) quotes in the eyes of God:

cum non sit Pondus nec distinccio Judei et Greci, Scoti aut Anglici (since it is neither weight nor difference between Jew and Greek, Scot or English)

1421 James I Stewart King of Scots, appointed by Henry V King England as commander at siege of Dreux.  Henry V of England, (Welsh: Harri V) Reign         21 March 1413 – 31 August 1422 (9 years, 163 days). Henry was born in the tower above the gatehouse of Monmouth Castle and for that reason called Henry of Monmouth, son of Henry of Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, and sixteen-year-old Mary de Bohun. Wikipedia.

1454 – Robert Boyd, 1st Lord Boyd took seat in Parliament. In 1466 by Act of Parliament, Robert was made sole Governor of the Realm; and Great Chamberlain for life, and Lord Justice General in 1467. Wikipedia. Didn’t last long, though.

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1498 Dr Rodrigo Gonzalez de Puebla, Spain’s resident ambassador in London, wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella that Pedro de Ayala, Spain’s ambassador to Scotland, showed no inclination to return to Scotland, and said he had to remind him of their diplomatic purpose;

  • “I declared, and often said to Don Pedro that the embassies which your Highnesses send to all parts of the world are not only for the purpose which is apparent, but also for your renown, and in order to know what happens there, and to delude France, and bring her into bad reputation, and for other objects, unknown to us.”

According to Puebla, Ayala’s servants fought on the streets of London, and an Englishman was killed. Ayala’s Scottish chaplain was arrested for murder and returned to Scotland. Puebla and Ayala were joined in London by the Knight-Commander Sanchez Londoño and the Sub-Prior of Santa Cruz, Fray Johannes de Matienzo, on 18 July 1498. They understood that Ayala stayed in England to restore his health rather than return to Scotland. They recognised his popularity at the English court and expertise in Scottish matters and asked him to brief Ferdinand and Isabella on the state of Scotland.

1545 Battle of the Solent. between the fleets of Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England, in the Solent channel off the south coast of England between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The engagement was inconclusive and is most notable for the sinking of the English carrack Mary Rose.

1745 Duke of Cumberland leaves Fort Augustus (TG84-358)returned towards Edinburgh. Fictional Tom Jones, character created by Henry Fielding, enlists in the Duke’s protestant regiment to fight the rebels in the ’45. Publisher Andrew Millar by the Strand (London). (Millar’s clans Stewart, Lockhart, Hunter)

“The Highlanders Medley”, or “The Duke Triumphant”

1792 John Paul Jones died. John Paul (he added “Jones” later) was born on the estate of Arbigland near Kirkbean in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright on the southwest coast of Scotland. His father, John Paul (Sr.), was a gardener at Arbigland, and his mother was named Jean Duff. His parents married on November 29, 1733 in New Abbey, Kirkcudbright.

John Paul Jones by Charles Willson Peale, c17811793.

1811 William Makepeace Thackeray born (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society. Wikipedia.

Photograph of William Makepeace Thackeray. Thackeray’s mother Anne’s grandmother had told Anne that the man she loved, Henry Carmichael-Smyth, an ensign of the Bengal Engineers whom Anne met at an Assembly Ball in Bath, Somerset in 1807, had died, and the Essign was told that Anne was no longer interested in him; neither of these were true. Though Carmichael-Smyth was from a distinguished Scottish military family, Anne’s grandmother went to extreme lengths to prevent their marriage; surviving family letters state that she wanted a better match for her granddaughter. Anne Becher and Richmond Thackeray were married in Calcutta on 13 October 1810. Their only child, William, was born on 18 July 1811.[8] There was a fine miniature portrait of Anne Becher Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray, about age 2, done in Madras by George Chinnery c. 1813.

Anne Becher and William Makepeace Thackeray, c.1813. Anne’s family’s deception was unexpectedly revealed in 1812, when Richmond Thackeray unwittingly invited the supposedly dead Carmichael-Smyth to dinner. After Richmond died of a fever on 13 September 1815, Anne married Henry Carmichael-Smyth on 13 March 1817. The couple moved to England in 1820, after sending William off to school there more than three years before. The separation from his mother had a traumatic effect on the young Thackeray which he discussed in his essay “On Letts’s Diary” in The Roundabout Papers.Thackeray is also British comedian Al Murray’s great-great-great-grandfather. Wikipedia.

Title-page to Vanity Fair, drawn by Thackeray, who furnished the illustrations for many of his earlier editions.

1843 Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905) was a veteran of the Civil War and was a Deputy U.S. Marshal for south-eastern Arizona Territory and Tombstone City Marshal at the time of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Scots ancestry.

1921 John Herschel Glenn Jr (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and the third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA’s Mercury program as a member of NASA’s original astronaut group. Glenn descended from the Glenn–Macintosh clan of Scotland. In 1963 he received a letter from a young girl in Sheffield, England, named Anne Glenn. The letter, congratulating him on his orbit around the Earth, enclosed a family tree showing that Anne’s father, George Arthur Thomas Glenn, and John Glenn were cousins. The news made it into the South Yorkshire Times, and a viewed copy retained by Anne’s younger sister.www.answers.com/topic/john-glenn-jr#ixzz1phnTnBT1

John Glenn, Glenn Macintosh clan.

 

Mackintosh Crest: A cat-a-mountain salient guardant Proper. Motto: TOUCH NOT THE CAT BOT A GLOVE.
Badge: red whortleberry, bearberry or boxwood Chief: John Lachaln Mackintosh of Mackintosh

 

1969 Apollo 11 the first manned landing one third of way to the Moon.

1980 Kristen Anne Bell (born July 18, 1980) is an American actress. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Her father Tom Bell is Scots.

1997 James Choate married Angie, and Steven Choate married Nancy at DALLA (temple). James and Steven, brothers, are many great grand sons of Robert 1st Lord Boyd, and James 1st Stewart, King of Scots, Edw 1st, nephew of Henry V. Dallas Texas temple.

 

1997 Mrs Brown included Balmoral Castle in Scotland.

Poster. A bereaved Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) between 1861 and 1863 leaves court, counseled by a Scottish servant, John Brown.

The Balmoral is a traditional Scottish bonnet, named after Balmoral Castle, a Royal residence in Scotland. From the 16th century, it is a soft, knitted wool bonnet, originally with a voluminous, flat crown, traditionally blue, sometimes with a diced band (usually red-and-white check) around the lower edge and with a colored toorie (pompom) set in the middle of the crown. Today the crown of the bonnet is smaller, made of finer cloth and tends to be blue or lovat (clan Fraser) green. Tapes in the band originally used to secure the bonnet tightly are sometimes worn hanging from the back of the cap. A clan or regimental badge is worn on the left hand side with the bonnet usually worn tilted to the right to display these emblems. eretandboina.blogspot.com

BALMORAL CASTLE. The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page 205 Rudyard Kipling’s Wee Willie Winkie, 1937 poster, features the Balmoral bonnet as the uniform of the day for all the soldiers.

 

 

Wee Wilie Winkie frame showing the Balmoral Bonnets and the tapes hanging from the back of the cap. Victor McLaglen has the swagger stick under his left arm. 2015

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