James Heriot-Maitland
Major-General Sir James Makgill Heriot-Maitland, (14 June 1837 – 27 August 1902)‘HERIOT-MAITLAND, Sir James Makgill’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 was a British British Army, Army officer. Life Heriot-Maitland was born at Ramornie, Fife in 1837, the youngest son of James Maitland-Heriot (1774–1848), of Ramornie, by his wife Margaret Dalgleish (1796–1869), daughter of William Dalgleish and Janes Isabel Ogilvy. His father was the paternal grandson of Charles Maitland, 6th Earl of Lauderdale. He was educated privately, and at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned a Lieutenant (British Army and Royal Marines), lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 20 April 1855. He saw active service in the Second Anglo-Chinese War 1857–59, where he took part in the battle of Battle of Canton (1857), Canton (December 1857) and the storming of Chek-Hung under Charles van Strau ...
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St Andrews
St Andrews ( la, S. Andrea(s); sco, Saunt Aundraes; gd, Cill Rìmhinn) is a town on the east coast of Fife in Scotland, southeast of Dundee and northeast of Edinburgh. St Andrews had a recorded population of 16,800 , making it Fife's fourth-largest settlement and 45th most populous settlement in Scotland. The town is home to the University of St Andrews, the third oldest university in the English-speaking world and the oldest in Scotland. It was ranked as the best university in the UK by the 2022 Good University Guide, which is published by ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times''. According to other rankings, it is ranked as one of the best universities in the United Kingdom. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle. The settlement grew to the west of St Andrews Cathedral, with the southern side of the Scores to the north and the Kinness Burn to the south. The burgh soon became the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland, a position which was held until the Scottish ...
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