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Walter Scott
Scottish novelist, poet and playwright (1771–1832)
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
British politician (1784-1860)
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute
British nobleman, art collector, and Prime Minister of Great Britain (1713-1792)
Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
British Liberal politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1847–1929)
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
British senior officer during the First World War (1861-1928)
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
1st Duke of Orkney and third and final husband of Mary, Queen of Scots
Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (1778-1868)
Sir William Jardine, 7th Baronet
Scottish ornithologist and naturalist (1800–1874)
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside
British Army officer (1880-1959)
Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife
Scottish politician (1849-1912)
John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
British politician, Governor General of Canada (1847-1934)
Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
British politician (1856-1928)
Randall Davidson
Scottish Archbishop of Canterbury (1848-1930)
David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
British politician (1900-1967)
John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley
British Viscount (1882-1958)
James Fergusson
British politician (1832-1907)
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
British diplomat (1673-1747)
James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale
British diplomat (1759-1839)
Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross
British historian (1904–1976)
Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet
British historian (1792–1867)
Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery
British politician (1882-1974)
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
Scottish duke (1698-1778)
Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham
British admiral, politician and abolitionist (1726-1813)
James Mackay, Baron Mackay of Clashfern
British politician and life peer
Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
British politician (1750-1823)
William Wedderburn
British politician
George Douglas, 16th Earl of Morton
British politician (1761-1827)
Algernon Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore
British colonial administrator (1852-1930)
Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl
British politician (1874-1960)
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
Scottish peer and astronomer (1702-1768)
Neil Primrose
British politician (1882–1917)
James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline
British politician (1776-1858)
Robert Christison
British baronet, toxicologist, and physician (1797-1882)
Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay
British politician (1842-1929)
Sir Philip Christison, 4th Baronet
British Army general (1893–1993)
Andrew Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin
British politician (1849-1942)
Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet
British politician and slave plantation owner
Zainab Cobbold
British Muslim aristocrat
John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland
Scottish Liberal Party politician, soldier, peer, administrator
Henry Loch, 1st Baron Loch
British colonial governor (1827–1900)
Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, 1st Baron Carmichael
Scottish Liberal politician and colonial administrator (1859–1926)
Charles McLaren, 1st Baron Aberconway
Scottish lawyer, politician, and industrialist (1850-1934)
Wilfrid Normand, Baron Normand
British politician (1884-1962)
Jack Stewart-Clark
British businessman and former Member of the European Parliament (born 1929)
Sybil Grant
noblewoman; British artist and writer (1879-1955)
Archibald Primrose, 4th Earl of Rosebery
British politician (1783-1868)
James Maitland, 7th Earl of Lauderdale
British earl
Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet
British Army general (1826–1907)
Thomas Bruce, 1st Earl of Elgin
Scottish nobleman
Lynda Clark, Baroness Clark of Calton
British politician (born 1949)
John Elphinstone, 2nd Lord Balmerino
Scottish nobleman involved in a religious test case of the 1630s
Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl
British courtier (1814-1897); Mistress of the Robes and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria
Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet
Scottish lawyer