Christopher Saxton
English cartographer who produced the first county maps of England and Wales.
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.
Bartholomew Binns
English executioner from November 1883 to March 1884.
John Kincaid, witch finder
Professional witch-finder or pricker of witches based in Tranent, East Lothian.
Thomas Linley
English tenor, musician and composer whose musically talented children were described as “a Nest of Nightingales”.
Henry Ernest Milner
English civil engineer and landscape architect
David Gregory
Scottish physician and inventor accused of witchcraft. He inherited Kinnairdy Castle in Banffshire.
Jamie Fleeman
Probably the last Scottish family jester, better known as “the Laird of Udny’s Fool” or “the Laird of Udny’s Fule”
John Greenwood
John Greenwood (1788–1851) was the keeper of a toll-gate in Pendleton on the Manchester to Liverpool turnpike, who In 1824 inaugurated the United Kingdom’s first omnibus service.
George Arthur Ferguson, 6th Laird of Pitfour
6th and final laird of the Pitfour estate in Aberdeenshire, the Blenheim of the North