SCOTLAND

The Scots as a nation have the reputation of being fiercely independent and a thorn in England's flesh! Nobody wants hostile neighbours but Scotland's history shows a continual struggle to maintain independence. The Romans tried to occupy the country for a few years, found it too difficult and gave up. England spent centuries trying to take possession and eventually they had to accept a Scottish king on their throne. Intrepid younger sons, black sheep of families and political exiles left Scotland to make their mark on the world.

John Logie Baird - television

Alexander Bell - telephone

Alexander Fleming - penicillin

James Watt - the steam engine

James Clerk Maxwell, - Scottish physicist, claimed the existence of radio waves before Marconi

Lord Reith of Stonehaven - the early development of the BBC

John Paul Jones - founder the American Navy

David Hume - 18th-century philosopher and historian, influenced thought

Patrick Gordon - General to Tsar Peter the Great

James Keith - Field-Marshal to Frederick the Great

Robert and James Adam - architects

Thomas Telford - bridges, roads and canals

Robert Stevenson's - lighthouses

Andrew Carnegie – philanthropist

British Prime Ministers – Gladstone, Ramsay MacDonald, Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home

American Presidents of Scottish descent - 11

John Macarthur – Australia’s agricultural system

And these are just a few….

SCOTTISH SCENERY