May 24 1153 David I “The Saint” and Malcolm Canmore. King David 1^st in Scotland died. Great uncle to Henry 2^nd later King of England. Knights Templar in Scotland.

In 1128 the cousin of St Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugues de Payens, who served on the First Crusade with Henri St Clair, 2^nd Baron of Roslin, and is sometimes connected to  Catherine St Clair, met King David I in Scotland. Wikipedia. Andrew Millar I of Temple and Killoch. Roslyn is a metro stop in Arlington County Virginia.  A 13^th century depiction of Bernard of Clairvaux, who disputed policy with Stephen.

The designation, Temple, dates from Old Testament. In Midlothian, about ten miles southeast of Edinburgh, the chief surviving Templar relic in Scotland is in the village of that name, a church whose eastern end dates from the last of the 13^th century, and whose rebuilt western portion contains several courses of 12^th century masonry. It became a parish church at the Reformation (1560); the nearby house that served for many years as the manse has in its cellar the lower part of a small wheel-stair that may mark the north range of a vanished cloister; the foundations of a wall and fragment of a buttress in the grounds of the cottage at the nearby bend in the South Esk River probably indicates the rere-dorter, or latrine in a monastery of the middle ages. Temple Scotland. www.papadonkey.net/templars/templarbritain/ the roof’s gone but the walls stand.  By Dennis Garner. Near Glasgow, what is today a suburb, was formerly a separate village of Temple. (Here we witnessed a pagan ceremony [cir 1960] As a shift streamed out of a factory, a noisy group of girl workers companioned a mate costumed with a white rag for a veil and bits of ribbon pinned to her clothes. Shouting that their quarry was about to be married, the girls seized on every available male, including our driver, and made him buss her resoundingly.)

On Ayrshire maps, Temple appears twice, but both times near an 18^th, not a 16^th century structure. One ‘temple’ on the former Auchencruive estate, not an agricultural college, is a ‘folly’ of the classical revival; it was used as a shooting box.

The other place marked Temple is on the Dumfries House grounds below Glenside Farm. There, a ruin of an imposing gate-house, designed by the Main brothers and built in 1754-1759, exemplified the Gothic revival. At the time it was built, the main east-west road followed a course different from that of the present highway; this was the northern entrance to Dumfries House.

dumfries-house.org.uk. A spectacular gate house, this Category A listed structure was doomed from the start as a day to day part of the Estate, as access from it to the main road was denied by the owner of the interceding land. As it no longer had a ‘practical’ use, it began to be referred to as a Temple and simply became a decorative feature.

Why a gate-house, occupied to within the first third of this century, should (46 YYMA) be called Temple is puzzling; did the designation once apply to something else—it appears not only on modern maps but on an Ayrshire map of 1775, when the gatehouse was quite new, and on the six-inch-to-the-mile Ordinance Survey map of 1857.

Additional mystery attaches to a symbol on the 1775 map, indicating a house such as might have belonged to a minor member of the gentry on the southwest corner of the intersection of the present east-west highway and the road from Auchinleck to the Bute gate. No vestige of it exists today, and the Bute tenant who farms Glenside says he has never struck any foundations while ploughing in this corner.

(69 YYMA) The Millars as Freemasons.         During the 17^th century, a number of the Millar men were Free-masons: still in possession of a member of the family is a Masonic apron with a notation: ‘Robert Miller. Scotland. 1691.’   The apron represents the fig leaves Adam and Eve made in Garden Eden. The Scottish Masons’ Lodge Number ‘0’, the Mother Lodge of Scotland. is in Ayrshire, at Kilwinning. Street view, front. Flickr.com

According to legend, freemasonry came to the country when Richard de Monville, about the year 1162, imported from the Continent builders who constructed Kilwinning Abbey on the site of a 6^th century church of the Irish St. Wynnin. The origin of the Lodge is unclear with the first documentary evidence being a mention in The Schaw Statutes of 1598 and 1599 which identify it in its first paragraph as the “heid and secund ludge of Scotland”.  A party of these foreign masons is supposed to have come from Italy, or Cologne, for the purpose of building the Abbey at Kilwinning and to have founded there the first regularly constituted Operative Lodge in Scotland.

1799 map with Kilwining inshore from the Firth of Clyde to the west, showing its location to Reith, Largis, Paisly, Renfrewshire, Loudoun, Kilmarnock, Air, Stair, Aikenhead, Waterford, Glasgow, and Rutherglen.     The Kilwining Lodge is reputed to have been held in the Chapter House on the Eastern side of the cloisters. On the broken walls and moldering arches of the Abbey numerous and varied Masons’ marks may be seen, some very beautiful in design. Lodge records show a Brother Miller in 1642, a Thomas Miller from Ayr and a Robert Miller in 1647, a John Miller in 1650 and a Brother Miller in 1662.

Kilwinning shown within North Ayrshire.   Cochranes, having lived at Kilwinning for two centuries, Robert Cochrane (died 1482) Earl of Mar, signed his lands over to his son, Allan in 1452 (The Charter Chest of the Earldom of Dundonald). An architect and chief mason for King James III, Cochrane built the tower on Stirling Castle for King James III. Stirling Castle. joshlovesit.com/ travel-to-scotland-part-3

This Robert Cochrane, Earl of Mar, was hung by other nobles, at Lauder Bridge in 1482 in front of King James III, who would also be murdered by 1488. Robert had money. The plan to take Robert Cochrane required someone to defy the king. Archibald Douglas, 5^th Earl of Angus obtained the nick name ‘Bell the Cat’. The Cat being the Robert Cochrane, Earl of Mar. Who will Bell the cat? www.phrases.org.uk  TANTALLON CASTLE. Lothian. Marmion dared to beard Angus Bell-the-Cat. “Ding doon Tantallon? Build a brig to the Bass!” The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark, 1916 to the Lord Marischall, Boston The Page Company. P.157. Firth of Forth.

1215 English barons organized against King John. King John descends from Malcolm 3^rd, King of Scots. Listed in the Greeting, ‘Brother Aymeric master of the knighthood of the Temple in England,’ – See more at: bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-english-translation# 

1425 – Murdac Stewart Regent (1362) and 2 sons, Walter and Alexander, executed at Stirling Castle Hill (Tg 19-264, 265) [Murdac Stewart, 2^nd Duke of Albany, (d.1425) Earl of Fife (until 1420), (ODNB xviii1224,1232) (pronounced Murdoch), justiciar, prisoner of war 1402, and Isabella Stewart of Lennox, had eldest son; Walter Stewart (d. 1425) (ODNB xviii1224) had, Andrew Stewart, 1^st Baron Avandale (d. 1488) (ODNBxviii1157,1224) had (1^st) Andrew STEWART 3^rd Lord Avandale and 1^st Lord Ochiltree(1QF9-Z4X) (d. 1548 Ochiltree, Ayr, Scotland) and Margaret HAMILTON [1QF9-Z55] had, (1^st) Andrew STEWART 2^nd Lord Ochiltree, Ayr [1QF9-Z6C, System of Heraldry by Alexander Nisbet Vol. 2, IV, 42, 1742; ODNBxviii1158) ( fl .1548-1601) [one of 24 Lords of the Congregation] and [1QF9-Z04] had, Anne STEWART [1QF9-Z1B] married 1560 Andrew MILLAR 1^st [1QF9-XVB] and (2^nd) Henry Stewart, Lord Methven, husband and consort [1520-1541] to Margaret Tudor Dowager Queen of Scots, who had [1515-1525] Master of Methven, who had Dorothy Stewart before 1547 (mother of 14]. Ochiltree is ancestor of Reese  Witherspoon (May 2013) cousin to David Marcus Olaf Choate.

1559 Reformers met at Perth to devise measures for resisting the Queen regent. Wishart, Argyle, Glencairn, Lord James Stewart, John Erskine of Dun.

1592 sometime in May. Auchindoun Castle in Auchindoun near Dufftown which then belonged to the Clan Cochrane. Constructed in the mid 15^th century by Thomas Cochrane (later Earl of Mar (1458-79). The tower house was ornate, with a great vaulted hall on the first floor. nomadenseelewow 

Castle Auchindoun was passed to the Clan Ogilvy in 1489 and then to the Clan Gordon in 1535. The Clan MacKintosh captured and destroyed the castle in 1592 in retaliation for the 6^th Earl George Gordon, 1^st Marquess of Huntly’s killing of The Bonnie Earl Of Moray, their ally. Wikipedia. Mar Crest: On a chapeau Gules furred Ermine, two wings, each of ten pen feathers, erected and addorsed, both blazoned as in the Arms. Motto: PANS PLUS[from French: “Thinks more”]. Chief: Margaret of Mar, 30^th Countess of Mar. Wikipedia

1745 – Duke of Cumberland resides at Fort Augustus. (TG 84-358). Fictional Tom Jones enlisted in the Duke of Cumberland’s (son of George 2^nd) regiment, Henry Fielding author, published by Andrew Miller VI, (1705-1768) London by the Strand.

www.oldukphotos.com Fort Augustus in Inverness.

1767 Andrew James Cochrane, later Cochrane-Johnstone, Governor of Dominica, born 24.05.1767, Colonel, married 1. (20.11.1793) Georgina Hope-Johnstone (b 12.10.1773, d 17.09.1797, daughter of James, 3^rd Earl of Hopetoun.

Johnstone    Hope Crest: A broken terrestrial globe surmounted by a rainbow issuing out of a cloud at each end all Proper. Motto: AT SPES INFRACTA. [from Latin: “But hope is unbroken”]. Chief: Sir John Hope of Craighall, Bt (Baronette).The motto is a pun on the clan name.

1781 Major General Cornwallis wanted to push Lafayette, whose force now numbered 3,000 men with the arrival of militia.  Charles Cornwallis, historyisfun.org

On May 24, Cornwallis set out after Lafayette, but Lafayette withdrew from Richmond, and linked up with forces under the command of Baron von Steuben and ‘Mad’ Anthony Wayne. Cornwallis did not pursue Lafayette; instead, he sent raiders into central Virginia, attacking depots and wrecking supply convoys, before recalling them on June 20. Later, Cornwallis’ daughter married a Cochrane. On the way to Yorktown.

1788 John and Charles Wesley, Evangelists, Hymn Writers, 1791 and 1788

1806 Field Marshal John Campbell, 5^th Duke of Argyll died, (June 1723 – 24 May 1806), styled Marquess of Lorne from 1761 to 1770, was a Scottish soldier and nobleman. Argyll was made a field marshal on 30 July 1796.

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5^th Duke of Argyll. the son of John Campbell, 4^th Duke of Argyll and Mary Bellenden, the daughter of John Bellenden, 2^nd Lord Bellenden of Broughton, Campbell was commissioned into the 21^st Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1744.He served in the response to the Jacobite Rebellion at the Battle of Falkirk and the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

1831 Benjamin Carr 12 sep 1768-24 May 1831 Come Ye Children of the Lord 58

1840. Elders Pratt and Mulliner then proceeded to Edinburgh, where they hired a hall in which, on May 24^th, Apostle Orson Pratt preached his first public discourse in Scotland, and soon afterwards a branch of 40 members was raised up in Edinburgh. In the fall of 1840 the branches in Edinburgh and vicinity were organized as the Edinburgh Conference.

1853 While sailing towards Zion on the Queen’s birthday in 1853, Scotsman Peter McIntyre vented his feelings concerning the dire state of poverty which he blamed on the monarchy: [May] 24^th . . . . This is Queen Victoria’s birthday. My God will remove your diadem and take off your crown, your power will be as the potsherd and King Messiah will as with an iron rod pound all your scepters. All ye kings and queens of Babylon. Come Lord, our King, come quickly is my prayer. Thou knowest what I suffered from oppression and hard labor for a morsel of bread after my sore travel, hunger and thirst in the Peninsular War. My cry to thee, Oh, Lord, is remember the cry of the poor and fulfil thy promise, destroy them who have oppressed the hireling and kept back their wages by fraud.

Scots in fiction.1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film released. The fictional heroes Indiana Jones and father, were Scots.  Poster. The first story saw Indiana battling a ghost in Scotland before finding the Fountain of Youth in Africa. The second story begins in 1937, with Indiana battling the murderous ghost of fictional Baron Seamus Seagrove III in Scotland.   That story line was abandoned. The fourth story line moved the action to Venice, Istanbul, and Asia. In 1912, 15-year-old fictional Indiana Jones is horseback riding with his Boy Scout troop in Utah. He discovers robbers in a cave who find an ornamental cross which belonged to Coronado. Professor Henry Jones, Senior is a Scot, graduate from Oxford University and is working on his research into the Holy Grail. Therefore Indy is a Scot, as are all the Young Indy Jones, or other cousins.

1995 Brave Heart released. Wins Best Picture and Best Director. Mel Gibson (Australian from Clan Buchanan), actor and director (Braveheart) 1995. Filmed in Scotland. William Wallace fights Longshanks in the 13^th century.

2009 Utah is ranked 2^nd highest (4.6% of the state population) among the 50 United States with the top percentages of Scottish residents (Wikipedia 26 March 2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans#Scottish_Americans_by_state ).   How are the Scots in Utah doing?  79c 2009 Zion National Park, Utah. Utah is in the best  five states for lowest median age for first marriage for men (26). http://www.pewresearch.org/2009/10/15/the-states-of-marriage-and-divorce/ OCTOBER 15, 2009

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