November 16 1093 Saint Margaret of Scotland, died Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, also known as Margaret of Wessex was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret fled to Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III, King of Scots, Clan Leslie Bartholomew arrived in the retinue of Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile. Bartholomew became Chamberlain to Saint Margaret of Scotland. Bartholomew later married Malcolm III sister, Princess Beatrix of Scotland. Bartholomew’s brother inlaw Malcolm III made him Governor of Edinburgh Castle.

Image of Saint Margaret in a window at St Margaret’s Chape, Edinburgh. Margaret and Malcolm had eight children, six sons and two daughters:

Edward, killed 1093. Edmund of Scotland, Ethelred, abbot of Dunkeld, King Edgar of Scotland, King Alexander I of Scotland, King David I of Scotland, Edith of Scotland, also called Matilda, married King Henry I of England, Mary of Scotland, married Eustace III of Boulogne.

1240 Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240

1272 Coronation and accompanying celebrations of Edward I, (ancestor of James 2^nd Stewart King of Scots) at Westminster. Robert VI the Bruce, 6th Lord of Annandale, Earl of Carrick (1243–1304) attends coronation. Gilbert de Clare, 6^th Earl of Hertford, 7^th Earl of Gloucester.

1326 Invasion of England (1326) Isabella of France the She-wolf of France, was Queen consort captures Edward II of England (ancestor of James 2^nd Stewart King of Scots) near Llantrisant.

Edward’s arrest by Isabella, seen watching from the right.

1528 James Hamilton, 1^st Earl of Arran (1475–1529), On the forfeiture of Angus James had a charter of the lordship of Bothwell,

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James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault and 2^nd Earl of Arran, was appointed regent of Scotland from 1542 to 1554.

1585, Edinburgh, James Melville riding from Berwick to Linlithgow, entered Edinburgh by the Water Gate of the Abbey at eleven o’clock in the forenoon and rode up. November. A History of Epidemics in Britain from A.D. 664 to the Extinction of Plague Charles Creighton, M.A. M.D. Demonstrator of Anatomy University of Cambridge. 1891

1733 Ebenezer Erskine and 3 ministers were deposed from their office and founded the Secession Church. In 1712, the law of lay patronage was revived. One of the first Acts of the Scottish Parliament after the Revolution (1688) was to abolish lay patronage, and the Act of Security was understood that the lay patronage not be restored. Within 5 years of the Union(1707) patronage was re enacted with great discontent in Scotland, which lead to violent disputes with ministers of the Establishment. In 1736, the arrest and punishment of some smugglers, resulted in the trial, conviction of the King’s commander of the city guard, Porteous, who, while awaiting pardon was seized from the protection of jail, and hung in Edinburgh. The Government was outraged, and after offering a reward, which went uncollected, discovered no one who took part in the riot. The affair was brought to Parliament, which resolved to punish Edinburgh. A bill was adopted for a fine of L2,000 for Porteous’s widow. Also a clause was inserted requiring the ministers of the Established Church to read a proclamation from the pulpits once every month, for a whole year, calling on the congregation to aid in discovering the murderers of Captain Porteous. This gave more offence to clergy and laity. Tytler’s Britannica 231.

1746 Robert Livingston born. Founding Father, draft committee for the Declaration of independence 1776, negotiating and signing the Louisiana Purchase 1803. ‘The Chancellor’ for New York 1777-1801, as the highest judicial officer in New York. The New York Court of Chancery had jurisdiction for equity cases (no jury trial), and court of appeal for the New York State Supreme Court (New York’s trial court). The Chancellor was also member of the Court for the Trial of impeachments and Correction of Errors.

Robert R. Livingston (clan Livingston) by Gilbert Stuart. Wikipedia

1752 Paper War of 1752–3. Following Murphy, Thornton attacked both Hill and Fielding in The Spring-Garden Journal.

The Conjurers (1753) depicting Fielding (left of center) and Hill (right of center)

1753 James McHenry born (November 16, 1753 Scots family in Balymena, County Antrim, Ireland– May 3, 1816) was an early American statesman. McHenry was a signer of the United States Constitution from Maryland and the namesake of Fort McHenry. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress from Maryland, and the third United States Secretary of War (1796–1800), under the first and second presidents, George Washington and John Adams.

1776 Battle of Fort Washington. Fraser’s Highlanders, 42^nd Foot now the Black Watch. Percy attacked Cadwallader in the South and the 42^nd landed on the east side and pushed inland behind Cadwallader’s position, forcing the Americans to fall back to the fort.

British troops crossing the river.

1824 Edinburgh’s Great Fire The cause of the great fire was a pot of heated linseed oil in engraver James Kirkwood’s workshop.  The fire seemed to have been extinguished at one point, but By 9AM on the 16^th , the fire renewed in the Tron Church.  According to a report from Coutts & Co., Bankers, ‘Sir Walter Scott was one of the crowd watching the Fire Demon at work on the Tron Kirk spire, and when it was wreathed in flames, he ejaculated to Henry Cockburn and others, “Eh, sirs ! mony a weary, weary sermon hae I heard beneath that steeple !’ His father had sat, and his young mind had been tortured, there. Luckily the church was saved by the arrival of Deacon Field with a powerful fire-engine, and the inhabitants breathed again. ‘  By the time the fire was put out, on the 17^th, a significant portion of the south side of the High Street had been razed.

1826 Sir Walter Scott’s “Life of Napoleon Buonaparte” presented some significant new material to the world.  Some of this was included in a historical note related to Napoleon’s coup d’etat of Eighteenth Brumaire.  Scott’s journal entry of November 16, 1826, provides insight into the research process he engaged in, meeting with Arthur Wellesley to further the cause of his study of Napoleon: ‘At eleven to the Duke of Wellington, who gave me a bundle of remarks on Bonaparte’s Russian campaign, written in his carriage during his late mission to St. Petersburg. It is furiously scrawled, and the Russian names hard to distinguish, but it shall do me yeoman’s service.’  Information from Wellesley’s packet was later published as “Memorandum on the War in Russia in 1812”.

Wellington’s Scots’ connection; 2a) Henry Somerset, 7^th Duke of Beaufort, Wellington’s aide-de-camp during the Peninsular War, married Georgiana Frederica Fitzroy (1792–1821), Wellington’s niece, and daughter of the Hon. Henry FitzRoy and Lady Anne Wellesley (Wellington’s sister). After the death of his wife Duchess Georgiana in 1821, the Duke of Beaufort married Georgiana’s younger half-sister, Emily Frances Smith, daughter of Charles Culling Smith, on 29 June 1822; they were both daughters of Lady Anne Smith, (nee Lady Anne Wellesley) the Duke of Wellington’s sister.

The 7^th Duke Beaufort’s mother was Lady Charlotte Sophia Leveson-Gower (Duchess of Beaufort) (b. circa 12 Feb 1771 St Martin In The Fields, Westminster – died 12 August 1854). The Duchess Beaufort’s mother was Lady Susanna Stewart (d. 1805) married 1768, became Marchioness of Stafford; the Marchioness’ mother was Catherine Cochrane (d 15.03.1786), daughter of William, Lord Cochrane (dvp 25.08.1679), son of Sir William Cochrane, 1^st Earl of Dundonald (b 1605, d 1685). Earl Dundonald’s Brother to Colonel Hugh Cochrane, ancestor of Miller, Simmons, Choate.

1830 Duke of Wellington resigned office in parliament. Tytler’s Britannica.

1857 – Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.

The Relief of Lucknow, by Thomas Jones Barker. Sir Colin Campbell Field Marshal The Lord Clyde

GCB, KCSI commander, the relief army in the Indian Mutiny of 1857.

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1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.

1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46^th U.S. state. Many native leaders had Scots ancestry. Scots place names (Wkikpedia) – Carnegie, Chisholm Trail, Davidson, Douglas, Duncan, Guthrie, Hunter, Lamont, Logan County, Macomb, McAlester, McClain County, McCurtain County, McIntosh County, McLoud, Midlothian, Lincoln County, Morris, Morrison, Newkirk (Kirk meaning “church”), Stuart

1940 Battle of Britain. Submarine “SWORDFISH”, setting out on Bay of Biscay patrol, struck an enemy mine off the Isle of Wight, southern England and sank.

1955 release of The Cockleshell Heroes is a 1955 film on Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bay of Biscay port of Bordeaux Harbor.

Beatrice Campbell as Mrs. Ruddock.

Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith as Captain Hugh Thompson. Based on Operation Frankton, the December 1942 raid by canoe-borne British commandos on shipping in Bordeaux Harbor. Named for the canoes. Royal Navy submarine HMS Tuna (N94) left from Holy Loch in Scotland. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill believed the mission shortened the World War II by six months.

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1962 Time Magazine Cover featuring Michigan Governor elect George Romney (clans Cameron, Currie, Ferguson, McKinlay, Muir, Wilson.)

Republican George Romney.

1964 Carnegie Hall New York City. Maria Stuarda US premiere in concert. Previous , productions of Maria Stuarda were staged in Regio Emilia and Modena (1837), in Ferrara and Malta (1839–40), in Florence, Ancona, Venice and Madrid (1840), Bologna (1841), Oporto, Portugal (1842), Granada, Malaga, and Barcelona Spain plus Venice and Padua (1843), Lisbon (1844), and finally Pesaro (1844–45). There was also a Maggio Musicale Fiorentino production in 1967 which starred Leyla Gencer and Shirley Verrett. Maria Stuarda (Mary Stuart) is a tragic opera, (tragedia lirica), in two acts, by Gaetano Donizetti, to a libretto by Giuseppe Bardari, based on Andrea Maffei’s translation of Friedrich Schiller’s 1800 play Maria Stuart. Wikipedia

2011 Elder Ricky Stout enters Provo MTC for mission to Sapporo Japan. Many great grandson of James Hamilton, 1^st Earl of Arran.

2016 NewStatesman Magazine Cover featuring President Donald Trump (Scots clans McLeod, Macaulay, MacQueen, Isle of Lewis).

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