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Title: Scottish notes and queries
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: Genealogy
Publisher: (Aberdeen : D. Wyllie and Son)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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at county a modelj to the rest of Scotland in respect of farm ma-I nagement. 1 need not refer at length here toj the services rendered to the country by thatother Banffshire family represented at. present! by the Duke of Fife. Suffice it 10 say, that bothj in the camp and the senate different members1 of that family have distinguished themselves.I And though the present head of the family is( still a comparatively young man, there can be; no doubt that he has already shown himself inpolitical and social life a man of shrewdness andenergy. Indeed, flu; successful ambition withwhich this young Scottish Peer, though by nomeans belonging to one of the oldest of ournoble families, has yet, notwithstanding this dis-advantage, prevailed to push his way into thejealously-guarded precincts of the throne, andeven to ally himself in marriage with a daughterof the royal house of England, surely establishesto the full the fact that the contemporary headof the House of Fife has by no means lost any
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June, 1892.) SCOTTISH NOTES AND QUERIES. 9 of the skill and energy that, in the course of lessthan three centuries, have made of the descend-ant of a Scottish laird, the equal of our proudestScottish nobility and the companion of the throne. But it is not merely from the ranks of thenoble families of Banffshire, that is to say, fromamong the Gordons, the Ogilvies and the Duffs,that there have come all the notable public menwho figure in my lists. Many of them, no doubt,as was natural to expect, are descended fromthese great governing families. But many moreare sprung from the ranks of the country gentry,and even from the ranks of the prosperousmiddle class. As an example of this, let memention, from among other less notable names,that of the celebrated soldier of fortune, GeneralAlexander Gordon, who, after a distinguishedcareer in Russia, gained for himself the justadmiration of all military critics by his skilfulconduct of the defeated Jacobite army after thebattle of Sheriffmuir, ascottishnotesque16unse

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