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James Keith had been born at Inverugie castle, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire in the year 1696.

He was better known as Marshall Keith and was a loyal Jacobite who played a great part in the Struggle for truth that was the Jacobite cause.

Kenneth MacAlpin is one of the most famous names from the volumes of Scotland 's vast History book. He was the first king of the united Scots of Dalriada and the Picts, and worked hard to maintain a good society which could prosper and grow. In declaring himself King it meant he held most of the land which stretched north from the great river Forth in the east to the magnificent Clyde in the west. He had started out trying to pacify the Picts, Scots, Britons, and Anglos after he had defeated most of them in battles. According to what has been left behind he did manage to unite them in a sort of semblance of unity by the year 843 A.D.

MacAlpin created his capital at Forteviot, which was deep in Pictish territory. MacAlpin was said to have moved the remains of St. Columba, from Iona to a new religious centre in Dunkeld on the river Tay in Perthshire. The good thing about King Kenneth MacAlpin was that he had identified a common enemy for all the different type of people in his realm, namely the Vikings and so with that common cause they fought well together. The fights would go on for many years and Kenneth MacAlpin would prove himself worthy of being Called ‘The First King of Scots'

There is not a great deal of information on this King Kenneth the second. It is said that he did not attain full power until he had slain his nearest claimant to the throne, Amlaib. Most of kenneth's territory like the rest of the Scottish Kings at that time was north of an invisible line which stretched from the Great River Forth to the magnificent river Clyde . Kenneth the second started raiding further south going deeper into enemy territory, and raiding everywhere he touched.

Saint Kentigern is the patron saint of Glasgow but better known by his other name Saint Mungo. It is said that he was the first Bishop of Glasgow. When you take the two names together as the early Christians did, then translate them from the Celtic, they say the names as ‘High Lord' or ‘Dear Friend' There is a traditional Glasgow story about Saint Mungo which incorporates the Cities Coat of Arms, it is: ‘There's a tree that never grew, there's the bell that never rang, there's the fish that never swam, and there's the bird that never flew. All the items in the Arms have stories attached to them.

Captain William Kidd, the very name stirs up distant memories of pirate ships and buried treasure, every school boys dream. Kidd was the most famous pirate ever to come out of Scotland where he was born in the year 1645, in the town of Greenock , Renfrewshire.

Captain Kidd was the role model for all pirates, with swashbuckling accounts of his exploits, in his search for plunder on the high seas. Kidd had started of as a legitimate Privateer in the pay of the British government where he had been expected to attack and salvage French ships, mainly of the islands of the West Indies , and the North American coast. Kidd decided that his future lay in another form of salvaging vessels and duly turned pirate.

John Knox was undoubtedly the most senior figure in Scotland's religious Reformation. Knox had studied for the Catholic Priesthood. He had a great influence in the setting up and structuring of the Church of Scotland and this system has been mirrored in the way Scotland was governed in a political sense.

Lowland Scotland was just waiting for someone like John Knox to come along. Here it was fertile ground for his famous speeches and this was also where the commerce lay in the country. He had a captive audience with plenty of opinions against the Catholic Church of that time, and this area was more open to English influence because of the coming and going of so many English merchants and political figures.

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