George Ferguson (Lt Governor of Tobago)

George Ferguson (1748 – 29 December 1820) was the fourth Laird of Pitfour, a large estate in the Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland which became known as The Blenheim of the North.

George Ferguson, 5th Laird of Pitfour

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 Ross Goobey

Innovative pension fund manager (1911–1999).

George Tutill

Artist and entrepreneur who started a business at the age of 20, manufacturing banners and regalia.

Gertrude Agnew

Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Collection of eight short stories by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1904.

Gibbeting

Public exhibition of the bodies of executed criminals by hanging them from a gallows-like structure, where they were left to rot, held together with iron hoops.

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