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1 day ago · General John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (c.1693—1770), Colonel of the 2nd (Royal North British) Regiment of Dragoons Field Marshal John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (1723—1806), Commander-in-Chief, Scotland
1 day ago · Notes: F Also Father of the House (not necessarily contemporaneous with seniority) 1 Died in office 2 Retired 3 Defeated when seeking re-election Longest-lived MP. Although his alleged birth year predates parish registers and civil birth registration, William Badger, who was member for Winchester in the 1597 parliament of England, is supported by a History of Parliament biographer to have been a centenarian, being established to have been born 'circa 1523' and to have been buried on 18 ...
1 day ago · James Macpherson (1736–96), the nephew of Ewen MacPherson of Cluny, was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation.Claiming to have collected poetry by the demigod Ossian from the Fenian Cycle of Celtic mythology, Macpherson published translations from Scottish Gaelic that he proclaimed were an equivalent to the Classical epics of Homer and Virgil and which immediately became an international sensation.
