Scottish naval officer and Tory politician; also known as "The Admiral" or "The Sailor" to differentiate him from his father.
George Marsh
Protestant priest who became a martyr, after his execution in 1555 as a result of the Marian Persecutions during the reign of Queen Mary I.
George Ogilvy, 3rd Lord Banff
Inherited the lands of Inchdrewer and Montbray in 1668. He was murdered and his body burned at Inchdrewer Castle in 1713.
George Tutill
Artist and entrepreneur who started a business at the age of 20, manufacturing banners and regalia.
Gunpowder Plot
Attempt in 1605 to assassinate King James I and re-establish a Catholic monarchy by blowing up the House of Lords.
Guy Fawkes
Member of the group of English Catholics who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Henry Garnet
English Jesuit priest executed for his complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
Huskar Pit Disaster
Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.
Inchdrewer Castle
16th-century tower house in the parish of Banff, Aberdeenshire, in the northeast of Scotland.
James Ferguson (Scottish politician)
James Ferguson (25 May 1735 – 6 September 1820) was a Scottish advocate and Tory politician and the third Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of northeast Scotland, which is known as the 'Blenheim of the North'.