May 25 – 709 Aldhelm Bishop of Sherborne.

735 The Venerable Bede, Monk at Jarrow, Scholar, Historian.

venerabilisbeda.plgo.org

1315 Edward Bruce lands at Carrickfergus Ireland with 6,000 men, to oppose the English. Tytler’s Britannica.

1417 Catherine of Cleves born, (25 May 1417 – 10 February 1479) married Arnold, Duke of Guelders, on 23 July 1423

Catherine of Cleves kneels before the Virgin and Child. Her arms, with those of her husband, Duke Arnold of Guelders, are in the bottom center; the arms of her ancestors are in each corner. Ancestors of Scots and English royalty.

1424 James I Stewart and Joan Beaufort, the Earl of Somerset’s daughter, crowned at Scone. (TG18-263)

1425 Duncan, Earl of Lennox tried, executed. Mormaer of Lennox, 1385-1425. Ddonnchadh was a son of Baltar mac Amlaimh and Margaret, daughter of Domhnall, Earl of Lennox. Wikipedia

1546 – While Knox remained a fugitive, Cardinal Beaton was murdered on 29 May 1546, within his residence, the Castle of St Andrews, by a gang of five persons in revenge for Wishart’s execution. The assassins seized the castle and eventually their families and friends took refuge with them, about a hundred and fifty men in all. Among their friends was Henry Balnaves, a former secretary of state in the government, who negotiated with England for the financial support of the rebels.

1660 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector. Convention Parliament begins. It was by the letter of the law no true Parliament, because the king did not summon it, on the contrary, it summoned the king. Hence, it is known as the Convention Parliament. See G. M. Trevelyan England under the Stuarts

1840 Paisley and the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Samuel Mulliner (b. 1809), and Alexander Wright (b. 1804), Scots, arrive as missionaries. [Ensign Feb. 1987 – Gospel Seeds in Scottish Soil].

1854 New Zealand 1^st Parliament. The flag of Scotland features St Andrew’s saltire cross. Wikipedia

Flag of New Zealand.

1855 John Henry Gower Born: May 25, 1855, Rugby, Warwickshire, England- Died: July 30, 1922, Denver, Colorado There is A Green Hill Far Away 194

1910 South African War of 1900-02. The Black Watch, the oldest Highland Regiment, was formed by General Wade in 1739 to police the Highlands at a time when many of the clans harboured pro-Jacobite sympathies. Their name derived from the contrast of their dark green tartan against the regular red tunics of the British Army. The unveiling ceremony for the memorial, planned for 25^th May, 1910, was cancelled because the nation was still in official mourning after the death of King Edward VII.

To the Memory of Officers Non-Commissioned Officers & Men of THE BLACK WATCH.

1939 Astronomer Royal for Scotland was the title of the director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh until 1995. Sir Frank Watson Dyson, KBE, FRS (8 January 1868 – 25 May 1939) was Astronomer Royal 1905-1910, who introduced time signals (“pips”) from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in testing Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Dyson observed the 1919 solar eclipse at Brazil and Principe, observations from which confirmed Einstein’s theory of the effect of gravity on light. Wikipedia

 1945 Molly and Me released, plot in 1937 London, employment by fictional John Graham (clan Graham) of an actress. Lots of brogue. Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) ‘Roddy’ character is the son. His father was Thomas Andrew McDowall, a merchant seaman of Scottish descent  Molly and Me with Fields Woolley and McDowall. A bar scene features the song ‘Bring back my Bonnie.’  Obscure origin of the song may be Charles Edward Stuart (‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’)  after the defeat of the Prince at the Battle of Culloden in 1746 and his subsequent exile.

My Bonnie lies over the ocean
My Bonnie lies over the sea
My Bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.
Bring back, bring back
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh, bring back my Bonnie to me.

1945 The Body Snatcher horror film released. Short story by Robert Lewis Stevenson. The last firm to feature both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. The frequent mentions of William Burke, William Hare, and Dr. Robert Knox, all refer to the West Port murders of 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. The plot is set in 1831 in Edinburgh. Also mentioned were Helen McDougal and Margaret Laird. 16 victims sold for dissection lectures. English slang adopted the Burke as a participle, and verb to suffocate, kill for a body to sell to anatomists or surgeons, or suppress and hush up and conceal. Doctors teaching at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, universally renowned for medical sciences, relied on body snatchers. For instance, Dr. Nathan Smith, Physician and surgeon, the co-founder of 4 medical schools, at Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Vermont and Yale, and surgeon to Joseph Smith Junior, the Prophet, studied at the Edinburgh d decades earlier, in 1803. Lots of cobble stone roads, horses and carriages, and styles as imagined along the royal mile in Edinburgh. As a horror film, it is a dark and depressing, except as a Scottish film, hearing the revelers in the saloon sing scots songs was an interesting touch.

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

Utah USA 20c California Gull [Utah’s state bird] Sego Lily [Utah’s state flower]

wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Americans.   How are the Scots in Utah doing? Utah is in the best five states for lowest median age for first marriage for women (24). www.pewresearch.org/2009/10/15/the-states-of-marriage-and-divorce/

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