November 25 1034 Malcolm II (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda, King of Scots Maol Chaluim mac Choinnich) died at Glamis, succeeded by Duncan I. Donnchad, the son of his daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.

Fanciful and anachronistic 17th century depiction of the king Malcolm; his actual appearance is unknown.

1120 The White Ship (French: la Blanche-Nef) sank in the English Channel off Barfleur near the Normandy coast, on 25 November 1120. Only one of those aboard survived. Those drowned included William Adelin, the only surviving legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England. William Adelin’s death led to a succession crisis and a period of civil war in England known as The Anarchy.

The White Ship sinking.

1314 King John Balliol of Scotland died, known to the Scots as Toom Tabard (“empty shirt”), was King of Scots from 1292 to 1296, the son of John, 5th Baron Balliol, Lord of Barnard Castle, and his wife Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway and granddaughter of David, Earl of Huntingdon.

1743 Prince William, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (William Henry; born, 25 November 1743 – 25 August 1805) was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of George II and a younger brother of George III.

Portrait of the Duke of Gloucester in 1804 by Sir William Beechey. Gloucester became a Field Marshal on 12 October 1793.

1829 Scots Roman Type, prepared in Glasgow Scotland, and shipped to a foundry in Albany New York, then delivered to the E. B. Grandin Printing company in Palmyra New York, according to the Crandall Gutenberg Printing Museum in Provo Utah. The Scots Roman type is the font used to print the first edition of the Book of Mormon. The contract with E. B. Grandin’s print shop to print the book was signed on Tuesday 25 Aug 1829, and the completed book was on sale by Friday 26 March 1830. Typesetter John H. Gilbert selects type and inserts commas, periods, and other punctuation as Gilbert reads Oliver Cowdery’s hand written copy. One form signature of 16 pages, in quantities of 5,000 copies will be printed per 6 day 11 hour per day week. Meridian Magazine (14 Apr 2005). http://www.johnpratt.com/items/docs/lds/meridian/2005/printing.html   13th   form of 16 pages printed. Somewhere in Mosiah.

Stained glass in Palmyra Temple.

1834 Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Kirtland, Ohio. (clan Mack of Inverness, descendant of Malcolm King of Scots). the coming of the Lord draweth nigh, and it overtaketh the world as a thief in the night. Doctrine and Covenants 106.

  1. Andrew Carnegie born in Dunfermline, Scotland immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. Owned Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary’s Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U.S. Steel, circa 1901.

Andrew Carnegie, (November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919), established over 2,500 public libraries throughout Britain and North America and gave away over $350 million (equivalent to about $13 billion in 2013). Founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Hall in New York.

1854 John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott’s son-in-law and biographer died, having enjoyed a distinguished literary career aside from his “The Life of Scott”.  Lockhart’s reputation as a writer was founded in writing for the Tory magazine Blackwood, which he joined in 1817.  It was his contributions to this magazine that ultimately connected him to Scott, and later to Scott’s daughter Sophia.  Lockhart was 60 at the time of his death.

John Gibson Lockhart (12 July 1794 – 25 November 1854), Lockhart’s life was saddened by family bereavement, resulting in his own breakdown in health and spirits. His eldest boy, “Hugh Littlejohn” of Scott’s Tales of a Grandfather, died in 1831; Sir Walter Scott in 1832; Anne Scott in 1833; Mrs. Lockhart in 1837; and the surviving son, Walter Scott Lockhart, in 1853.

Lockhart   Motto: CORDA SERRATA PANDO. [from Latin: “I open locked hearts”]. Chief: Angus Lockhart of The Lee   The motto is a pun on the clan name. Crest: On a chapeau Gules furred Ermine a boar’s head erased Argent, langued Gules.

Lockhart of Bar 1297 2Miller 2Simmons 2Choate 2Sorensen

 

1910 On his seventy-fifth birthday, November 25, 1910, Andrew Carnegie (Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland) announced the establishment of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace with a gift of $10 million.

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