Infamous Scots.

Infamous Scots past and present. Con artists Murderer’s fraudsters

1582 – Ruthven Raid In 1581, Esmé Stewart was created Earl of Lennox. He was in support of Queen Mary...

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27 November 2024

Infamous Scots. Madam Dora.

Dora Noyce (born Georgie Hunter Rae, 1900[–1977) was a Scottish brothel keeper (“madam”) based in Edinburgh. Early life Born Georgie Hunter Rae in Rose Street, Edinburgh,...

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29 September 2024

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Infamous Scots. Frank Mcphee.

Frank McPhee (21 October 1948 – 10 May 2000) was a long-time Glasgow gangland boss. McPhee was reported to have built his “underworld...

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25 August 2024

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Infamous Scots: The Notorious William George (Jock) Ross.

William George “Jock” Ross (born 5 August 1943) is a Scottish-born Australian outlaw biker, best known as the founder and the “Supreme...

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2 August 2024

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The Infamous James Macpherson: Outlaw and Rant Composer.

James Macpherson (1675–1700) was a Scottish outlaw, famed for his Lament or Rant, a version of which was rewritten by the...

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23 July 2024

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Infamous Scots. Jimmy Gauld.

James Gauld (9 May 1931 – 9 December 2004) was a Scottish footballer, who played as an inside forward. He began his career with Aberdeen but...

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12 July 2024

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Infamous Scots. Lady Emily Gordon Cathcart.

Lady Emily Eliza Steele Gordon Cathcart (née Pringle) was born in 1845. Her father was John Robert Pringle. Her first marriage was...

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7 July 2024

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Infamous Scots.Elizabeth -leveson-Gower

Elizabeth Sutherland Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland (née Sutherland; 24 May 1765 – 29 January 1839), also suo jure 19th Countess of Sutherland, was a Scottish peer from...

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30 June 2024

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Infamous Scots. Patrick Sellar.

Patrick Sellar (1780–1851) was a Scottish lawyer, factor and sheep farmer. In 1811, he was employed as a factor by the Sutherland Estate...

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19 June 2024

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Infamous Scots. Maggie Dickson.

Margaret Dickson was hanged on the 2 September 1724 at Edinburgh. Her crime was that of infanticide, namely that she had...

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7 June 2024

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Infamous Scots. Sir John Menteith.

Sir John Menteith of Ruskie and Knapdale (c. 1275 – c. 1329) was a Scottish nobleman during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is...

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29 May 2024

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Infamous Scots. Sawney Bean.

CONTAINS SENSITIVE MATERIAL. in Scotland in the 16th century who were reportedly executed for the mass murder and cannibalization of over 1000 people. The...

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16 May 2024

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Infamous Scots. Rob Roy MacGregor.

Rob Roy was born at Glengyle, at the head of Loch Katrine, as recorded in the baptismal register of Buchanan, Stirling. His parents were...

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11 April 2024

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Infamous Scots. Deacon Brodie.

William Brodie (28 September 1741 – 1 October 1788), often known by his title of Deacon Brodie, was a Scottish cabinet-maker, deacon of a trades guild,...

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28 March 2024

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Infamous Scots. Gilbert Balfour.

Gilbert Balfour lived from about 1520 to 1576. He served as Sheriff of Orkney and is chiefly remembered for his...

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24 March 2024

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Infamous Scots. Burke and Hare.

Doon the close and up the stairsBut an Ben wi Burke and HareBurke’s the butcherHares the thiefKnox the man who...

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21 March 2024

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Infamous Scots. John Gow.

John Gow (c. 1698–11 June 1725)was a notorious pirate whose short career was immortalised by Charles Johnson in A General History of the Pyrates. Little is...

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2 March 2024

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Infamous Scots. Minnie Dean.

Warning contains sensitive Information. Williamina Dean (2 September 1844 – 12 August 1895) was a New Zealander who was found guilty of infanticide and hanged. She...

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16 February 2024

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Infamous Scots. William Duff.

William John Duff (born January 1962) is a Scottish dentist from Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire who was jailed for three years (reduced on appeal to two years) for fraud and reckless...

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24 January 2024

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Infamous Scots. Sonny leitch

William “Sonny” Leitch, also known as the Saughton Harrier and Danger Man, is a retired Scottish career criminal. Leitch was born in Craigneuk, Lanarkshire,...

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10 January 2024

2023

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Infamous Scots. William McCoy.

The complement of HMS Bounty, the Royal Navy ship on which a historic mutiny occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789, comprised 46 men on its...

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31 December 2023

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Infamous Scots. Sheila Garvie.

Maxwell Garvie was a Scottish farmer and businessman who was murdered in 1968, in “one of the most infamous murders in Scottish criminal...

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14 December 2023

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Infamous Scots. Geordie Bourne.

Geordie Bourne (or Burn) (died 1597) was a well-known thief or raider in the English East Marches land that bordered the Kingdom of Scotland....

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20 November 2023

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Infamous Scots. (Janet Boyman).

Janet Boyman (died 1572), also known as Jonet Boyman or Janet Bowman, was a Scottish woman accused of witchcraft; she was tried and executed in 1572...

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13 November 2023

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Infamous Scots. (Nicol Muschat)

Nicol Muschat (1695–1721) was a Scottish physician, remembered for his murder of his teenage wife, Margaret Hall (1704-1720). Life. He was...

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3 November 2023

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Infamous Scots-Tam McGraw.

Thomas “Tam” McGraw (19 February 1952 – 30 July 2007), also known as “The Licensee” or “Wan-Baw McGraw“, was a gangster...

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14 October 2023

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Infamous Scots. Eric Joyce.

Eric Stuart Joyce (born 13 October 1960) is a Scottish politician, former military officer and convicted child sex offender. A former member...

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30 August 2023

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Infamous Scots. Tam Paton.

Thomas Dougal “Tam” Paton (5 August 1938 – 8 April 2009) was a pop group manager, most notably of the Scottish boy band the Bay City...

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13 August 2023

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Infamous Scots. Gary McKinnon.

Gary McKinnon (born 10 February 1966) is a Scottish systems administrator and hacker who was accused in 2002 of perpetrating the “biggest military computer hack of...

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28 July 2023

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Infamous Scots. Peter Manuel.

Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel (1927-1958) was a notorious Scottish serial killer. He was born in New York, but his family...

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13 July 2023

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Infamous Scots. Donald Forbes.

Donald Forbes (1935 – 12 April 2008) was a Scottish convicted murderer. Forbes was convicted and jailed on three occasions, twice for murder and...

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21 February 2023

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Infamous Scots. Joseph Slater.

Oscar Joseph Slater (8 January 1872 – 31 January 1948) was the victim of a miscarriage of justice in Scotland. Wrongly convicted of murder...

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3 February 2023

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Infamous Scots. John Cronin.

John Cronin (born 18 July 1971) is a repeat-offence Scottish convict. Imprisoned for running up a 140,000 kronor (US$20,500) bill in one of Sweden’s...

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10 January 2023

2022

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Infamous Scots. Patrick Carraher.

Patrick Carraher (1906 – 6 April 1946) was a notorious criminal from Glasgow. Known as “the Fiend of the Gorbals”, he was a...

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16 December 2022

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Infamous Scots. Thomas Aikenhead.

Thomas Aikenhead (bapt. 28 March 1676 – 8 January 1697) was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20 on...

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20 November 2022

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Infamous Scots. Thomas Watt Hamilton.

WARNING CONTAINS SENSITIVE MATERIAL. The Dunblane massacre took place at Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, United Kingdom, on 13 March 1996, when Thomas Hamilton...

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4 November 2022

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Infamous Scots. Walter Stewart.

Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Strathearn and Caithness (c. 1360 – 26 March 1437) was a Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert...

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25 October 2022

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Infamous Scots. John the Painter.

James Aitken (28 September 1752 – 10 March 1777), also known as John the Painter, was a mercenary who committed acts of sabotage in Royal Navy naval dockyards...

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6 October 2022

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Infamous Scots. Robert Chrichton.

Robert Crichton, 8th Lord Crichton of Sanquhar, (d. 1612) was a Scottish peer executed for the murder of a fencing...

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18 September 2022

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Infamous Scots. Euphame MacCalzean.

Euphame MacCalzean (born before 1558, died 25 June 1591 in Edinburgh) was burnt to death as a result of the North Berwick witch trials of...

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3 September 2022

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